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No Automatic Mouse Detection in Mandrake 10.1


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Guest VBScab

This is all very well, but how do I get to a command prompt to run anything with no mouse?!?

 

Try changing the /etc/X11/XF86Config file in the device section for the mouse;

 

Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"

 

to

 

Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"

 

 

It seems there is no /dev/mouse directory....

 

Bob  :wall:

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Found it...Alt+F2. Got 'command not found' when I tried 'mousedrake', though.

 

As a Linux newbie but PC oldie, I did the obvious:

- ran MCC

- TAB to 'Hardware/Mouse'

- change mouse to any other type than what I had (PS/2). This had been set to 'General' in spite of my choosing 'PS/2' at install time...

- back out of MCC

- run MCC again

- switch back to 'PS/2' mouse

- back out of MCC

 

Fixed. Easy :banana:

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I've had this problem for quite a while on a test PC I set up. Since I didn't use it very often, I just ignored it.

 

My way to get around it was to go into 'Configure My Computer' (after bringing up the menu with the Windows key and select a mouse. As long as it was a different mouse than I chose the previous time, it would pop up the test window and my mouse would start working.

 

So anyway, today I finally got annoyed enough with my mouse problems, found this thread, changed the mouse in xorg.conf to /dev/psaux and that fixed it for me.

 

Thanks to whoever provided that solution :)

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I am new to linlux and mandrake. I wish to try this fix as my cordless mouse is giving me fits. sometimes it works and sometimes it does not. works always in wondows and always works during bootup. once md is fully booted it may/may not work.

 

how do i get to

 

/etc/X11/XF86Config file in the device section for the mouse

 

and i am assumming that once i get there i will see

 

Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"

 

and just change to

 

Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"

 

thx for any info you send my way.

 

p.s. the biggest pain is that the wheel works for scrolling sometimes/not sometimes just like the mouse..not always at same time.

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I ditched my Logitech cordless mouse (on Windows boxes) ages ago because of this behaviour. It seemed to always stop responding duringthe most critical of operations (dragging/dropping files, drawing some intricate pattern, editing a photo) and after countless battery replacements, cleaning of balls (oy!), etc, just gave up. It's probably nothing to do with the set-up, just a crappy mouse.

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