MDV 2005 & Logitech MX500 [solved]

[crock]

When I boot into Mandriva 2005, I don't get any response to the mouse. I'm using a Logitech MX500 USB optical mouse. I have six usb ports on the back of the machine and two on the front. The mouse won't respond on any of these ports. Usually if the mouse is left plugged in, it turns on fine (the red optical light shines) but if you unplug it and plug it back in, nothing happens. It just appears as a dead mouse.

 

I tried navagating through KDE via keyboard but the mandrake control center never actually opens. It just hangs and dies on its own. I guess it has something to do with the way it was installed during the actual installation of the OS. I remember old MDK versions would verify that the mouse worked prior to continuing the installation.

 

Is there a command line tool or any other utility that I can use to try and resolve this? The mouse works great on every other PC I take it to.

[VeeDubb]

Yes, there is. The mouse is set up in a text file called /etc/X11/xorg.conf

 

What you need to do is first find a configuration that works for your mouse. Hopefully someone here has the same mouse, if not, it's google time.

 

Once you have that, boot into text only mode by hitting esc at the boot loader and entering 'linux 3'

 

From there, you can use vi to edit that file with the correct config.

 

As root, 'vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf'

 

edit away

[crock]

Just for giggles I installed 10.1 OE. EVERYTHING works fine, front USB, rear USB, mouse, etc. Everything works... Is this an xorg hiccup?

[VeeDubb]

Not totaly sure, but what you could do, is make a back up of your /etc/X11/XF86Config from 10.1 (in 10.1, that's the real file and xorg.conf is the link) then reinstall 10.2/2k5 and then overwrite xorg.conf with the file that 10.1 generated. IF that doesn't fix it, then there's a more serious problem, and you're gonna need better help than I can probably offer.

[crock]

That's an excellent idea. If I can't get 10.1 to do what I want, I'm going to take that avenue. Thanks!

[crock]

SOLVED!

 

In xorg.conf I changed the mouse section from:

 

changed protocol to "auto" and device to /etc/sysmouse

 

However when I restarted everything went back to the old way without changes. Changed it in MCC.

[crock]

My how quickly things change. It survived exactly 2 reboots. This thing is driving me crazy. It works fine one minute, then the next its awful.

 

Funny thing is 10.1 works FLAWLESSLY.

[VeeDubb]

once you get xorg.conf the way you like it, you can always make it read only so the stupid mcc/hardrake can't muck it up.

[crock]

Upon further evaluation of my situation, I decided that the struggles with Mandriva 2005LE weren't worth the effort I had to put forth. Everything was just mucked up when I switched from 10.1 to 10.2. I guess I've too new a computer for the system to handle...

 

Anyway, I downloaded both Ubuntu and MEPIS to check out. I installed MEPIS and didn't look back. It configured everything right out of the box. It even installed the nvidia drivers, logitech mx500 drivers and my WIRELESS drivers. All I needed to do was provide the WEP key. Now THAT'S a solution.