Guest geofgiff Posted June 2, 2005 Report Share Posted June 2, 2005 Just installed 10.1 on my Dell P3 1GHz. I've got a regular ole serial Microsoft Ps/2 mouse plugged in and the mouse worked fine during installation. After installation and reboot, it stops working. Doesn't matter whether I use KDE or Gnome. I've got a couple of problems: - i'm a newbie - the mouse doesn't work - since the mouse doesn't work, i can't navigate around within mandrive to do much in the way of troubleshooting. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted June 2, 2005 Report Share Posted June 2, 2005 You can move the mouse from your keyboard (arrow keys) in KDE after clicking alt-f12 (space is leftclick). For your mouse: open de Mandrake Control Center, hardware, mouse and select an appropriate one from the list. Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddmcse Posted June 2, 2005 Report Share Posted June 2, 2005 this is a bit of a bug for sure . it happens when you set security to "higher" you can set the mouse over and over but when you reboot the mouse will not work two options 1. change security setting 2. edit the file /etc/x11 /XF86Config edit this section : Section "InputDevice" copy n paste this : Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7" EndSection Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest geofgiff Posted June 6, 2005 Report Share Posted June 6, 2005 Worked like a charmer. Had to make one small change to recommendation below, however. Instead of [Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"], use [Option "Device" "/dev/mice"]. Thanks for the help, both of you guys above. I could never have solved this problem without you. this is a bit of a bug for sure . it happens when you set security to "higher"you can set the mouse over and over but when you reboot the mouse will not work two options 1. change security setting 2. edit the file /etc/x11 /XF86Config edit this section : Section "InputDevice" copy n paste this : Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7" EndSection <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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