Guest kulgan17 Posted June 11, 2004 Report Share Posted June 11, 2004 I have Mandrake 10 Installed. I have a Logitech optical mouse with a scroll wheel. It is connected to the Ps2 port via a use to ps2 converter. When i boot the system normally the mouse pointer is in the middle of the screen and it is frozen. If i unplug the mouse from the ps2 port, boot the system and the plug the mouse back in it woks fine. Does any one know why this is and how i can fix it so i don't have to up plug the mouse all the time? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted June 11, 2004 Report Share Posted June 11, 2004 Welcome the the board! can you post the mouse section of your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerrytaff Posted June 11, 2004 Report Share Posted June 11, 2004 Welcome to the club!! Look at my posting on this same issue - different mouse - same problem. You will see that it doesn't appear to be anything to do with the XF86Config-4 file. I have the same problem and so far no-one has found anything wrong with the config files. Did you clean install 10.0 ? Mine was an update from 9.2 That leaves me an option on my lilo menu to boot "old_linux" which uses the older kernel 2.4.x from 9.2 (and 9.2 splash-screen during boot, and I know what else from 9.2). Under that option, my mouse works fine. This leads me to suspect that there is some problem with kernel 2.6 in initialising some mice. There is a choice of using a 2.4.x kernel under mandrake 10.0. Have a look to see if you have more than the one kernel installed. If so try modifying lilo/grub to give you the option of booting with the other kernel and see if it cures the problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kulgan17 Posted June 12, 2004 Report Share Posted June 12, 2004 Here is the mouse section. Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7" EndSection I did a clean install and only have 2.6 installed. I will have to try 2.4. thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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