Guest boardtc Posted February 18, 2006 Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 I have Mandrake 9.2 installed. My logicalscroll mouse died (I tested it on some other machines) and now I want to get a new scroll mouse working - it does not work plug n play. I'm not getting around KDE too easily without a mouse and am wondering how I can get this new mouse working? Thanks for helping a newbie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aomighty Posted February 18, 2006 Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 See if you can install a package called "mdetect". It try to auto-detect what mouse you have. Is it USB or PS/2? A special model or generic? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest boardtc Posted February 19, 2006 Report Share Posted February 19, 2006 Thanks for your help. See if you can install a package called "mdetect". It try to auto-detect what mouse you have. Struggling to recover form a recent robbery where I lost all my linux notes. Having problems getting around kde without a mouse, I can get to a shell. Been looking on rpmfind for mdetect. Found mdetect but do not know if it's good for my distrib (mdk 9.2). Was looking to try and see if urpmi is there but can't figure out the keybpoard shortcuts to open it without a mouse. I just waste hours and hours trying to do things in linux, it's so frustrating. Is it USB or PS/2? A special model or generic? Logitech PS/2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted February 19, 2006 Report Share Posted February 19, 2006 Go ahead and download the rpm. To test the rpm first without actually installing: # urpmi -v --test <packagename> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted February 19, 2006 Report Share Posted February 19, 2006 I am not using Mandrake 9.2, but I did do a little googling trying to find posts dealing with 9,2 mouse issues. A typical xf86config-4 file for Mandrake 9.2 has a section that looks like this: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse2" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "PS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Emulate3Buttons" Option "Emulate3Timeout" "50" EndSection What does your xf86config-4 look like? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aomighty Posted February 19, 2006 Report Share Posted February 19, 2006 (edited) That snippet should work assuming you have a Logitech PS/2. I have that same mouse and that's what my xorg.conf looks like. Don't worry, after you use Linux for a while, stuff doesn't break anymore unless you ask it to :P. Edited February 19, 2006 by Aomighty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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