Mandrake 10.1 on laptop, external mouse won't work

[draknewbie]

I have recently installed Mandrake 10.1 on a laptop. The laptop has a Synaptics TouchPad which works fine under Mandrake; however, I have used this touchpad quite literally to death, and I have to mash its buttons very hard because they are so worn out. Very inconvenient!

I tried to plug an external mouse in the laptop's external PS/2 port, and then ran mousedrake and selected "PS/2 --> Generic PS2 Wheel Mouse". The mouse I want to use is a Logitech mouse with two buttons and a scroll wheel, very basic.

However, upon reboot, the touchpad is still functioning normally (A Bad Thing), while the only input the external mouse will give is if I move it very fast it will open a context menu.

I do not care as much about disabling my touchpad as I do about getting Drake to use my external mouse normally. I've spent the last few hours editing my xorg.conf and lilo.conf to no avail. Can anyone help me?

[adamw]

I've seen a few threads where apparently MDK gets its mouse devices confused, so check the devices you actually have under /dev for your mouse (/dev/mice , /dev/usbmouse , /dev/mouse , /dev/psaux - whatever) match what's in the X config file...

[draknewbie]

Here's what's in my X Config file:

Section "Input Device"

Identifier "Mouse1"

Driver "mouse"

Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"

Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"

Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

EndSection

...

Section "ServerLayout"

InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"

 

In my /dev there exists a mouse@, which is displayed in light blue text.

[coverup]

I was unsuccessful in getting two PS2 mice (touchpad and an external one) to work together. I then installed the synaptics driver for the touchpad and connected the external PS2 mouse through a PS2-to-USB cable. I was able to get them work under XFree86 4.3 by putting this into my XF86Config-4

# External mouse
Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier "Mouse2"
   Driver "mouse"
   Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
   Option "Device" "/dev/usbmouse"
   Option "Emulate3Buttons"
   Option "Emulate3Timeout" "50"
EndSection

# Touchpad
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "MaxTapTime" "180"
Option "UpDownScrolling" "on"
Option "LeftRightScrolling" "on"
Option "VertScrollDelta" "100"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "100"
Option "Edges" "1900 5400 1800 3900"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "MaxSpeed" "0.18"
Option "MinSpeed" "0.02"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
Option "Finger" "25 30"
Option "MaxTapMove" "220"
# Option "CorePointer" ""
Option "AccelFactor" "0.0007"
EndSection

# server layout
Section "ServerLayout"

   Identifier  "Server Layout"
   Screen "Screen0"

   InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
   InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
   InputDevice "Mouse2" "SendCoreEvents"

EndSection

[draknewbie]

I cannot thank you enough for your help, coverup! I downloaded a Synaptics driver, and though I do not have a PS/2 to USB converter, my desktop has a USB mouse I used to test this config on, and it works perfectly!

For reference, here is the URL of the driver I downloaded

http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/f...-0.14.1.tar.bz2

[adamw]

we actually have synaptics in contrib, but whatever works :). thanks for the good tip, coverup.