RanchNachos Posted June 20, 2004 Report Share Posted June 20, 2004 I just spent the last day or so going through the initial installation and package selection and stuff.. everything works great except for my damn USB Mouse. It's a Microsoft Intellimouse Optical.. as shown here. I know I need to edit some sort of config file.. most likely in /etc/X11. I ran the 'lsmod' through console.. it appears i have usb loaded.. so i'm not too worried about that.. I've also been reading around on sites searching with Google.. different sites say different things.. I got the 2.4 kernel. using kde How could i go about resolving this issue? Any suggestions here would be helpful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronin Posted June 21, 2004 Report Share Posted June 21, 2004 (edited) Have you tried setting the mouse as /dev/input/mice? I run Debain testing and am using a cordless MS mouse and that's what mine is set at and works like a charm. Edited June 21, 2004 by Ronin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RanchNachos Posted June 23, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2004 After a few attempts.. and then giving up.. i reinstalled with Sarge. It turns out the Debian I had was 3.0r1 (woody) an old release.... Anyway I got the latest Sarge and it works like a charm as well. If you'd like to know the real reason though, which I found out while trying to reinstall woody for the 4th? time or so.. it was because I didn't have the kernel 'mouse support' turned on. It seems by default it was turned off. Really strange if you ask me. Thanks anyway though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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