Mandriva 2008 and MS Trackball Optical mouse

[Guest Sparx]

Hi, new to this forum and Mandriva but not to Linux. I have a Trackball Optical mouse that I'd like to get working in my new Mandriva 2008 install. Copying xorg.conf entries that work in other linux installs do not work here, they crash X big-time. I'm hoping some kind soul can lend a hand.

 

Here's the stock xorg.conf section from my install (it's the same entry in XF86Config):

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Mouse1"

Driver "mouse"

Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"

Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"

EndSection

 

Here's the section that works in other linux that does NOT work:

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Configured Mouse"

Driver "mouse"

Option "CorePointer"

Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"

Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"

Option "Buttons" "7"

Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 6 7"

EndSection

 

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance

 

** - edit - I should add that it's connected through USB and the Mandriva Linux Control Center doesn't seem to offer any help with this.

 

 

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[tyme]

In the config section you're copying over I would first and foremost suggest changing this:

Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"

To this:

Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"

X is most likely crashing because the path to the device is wrong - while in other distro's it may be configured as /dev/input/mice in Mandriva it's /dev/mouse.

Also, you may want to ensure that the Identifier is the same, as this is used in other parts of xorg.conf to identify which mouse to use:

Identifier "Configured Mouse"

Should be:

Identifier "Mouse1"

All put together, you should try this as your config:

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Mouse1"

Driver "mouse"

Option "CorePointer"

Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"

Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"

Option "Buttons" "7"

Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 6 7"

EndSection

(changes marked in red)

 

Let us know how that works for you. If X crashes again, try to find any errors it's giving so we can narrow down the source.

[Guest Sparx]

Thanks for that, I appreciate it. X no longer crashes, but the outside buttons on my mouse still do not work. In the Control Center, there do not seem to be any options anywhere that apply to anything more than a 3-button mouse with wheel emulation, and my type does not appear in any of the drop-down options. So there's some progress, but still no joy.

 

** - edit - Now that X doesn't crash I tried re-mapping my side buttons to '8 & 9' instead of '6 & 7', and that seems to be working. Thanks again for getting me to the point where I could work this out.

Edited October 20, 2007 by Sparx