XOrg mouse configuration lost on each boot!

[theYinYeti]

Hello,

 

My mandriva 2008.0 runs fine, and auto-configured itself. Nice. Here's the resulting xorg.conf mouse part:

# File generated by XFdrake (rev 239302)
[…]
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSection

The problem I have is that I want to append these options to this section:

	Option "EmulateWheel" "on"
Option "EmulateWheelButton" "2"
Option "EmulateWheelTimeout" "1000"
Option "YAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "XAxisMapping" "6 7"

If I do so and CtrlAltBackspace, the options are enabled. Good.

 

Unfortunately, on next reboot (and that's at least twice a day), my added options are gone and I'm back to the original Section…

What is the cure?

 

Yves.

[arctic]

Errrm... is harddrake disabled? If not, it will probably overwrite your config.

 

PS: You could hard-lock your xorg.conf file

[theYinYeti]

Indeed, harddrake is enabled. What would be the consequences of disabling it?

 

Yves.

[daniewicz]

I have disabled harddrake and seen no consequences yet..... :unsure: B)

 

I feel confident that if you disable it, your xorg.cong over-writes will be a thing of the past.

[arctic]

harddrake is only necessary/useful if you add new hardware to your computer, say e.g. a new soundcard or a new graphics card. In this case, harddrake will automatically detect the new hardware and configure it as needed/load the modules. If you do not plan to alter your hardware on a regular basis, you can safely disable it.

[theYinYeti]

Good to know :) I suspected as much but I currently try not to change default configs too much, so I wanted to know more before "taking the risk".

Thank you!

 

Yves.

[scarecrow]

harddrake was a very handy tool back in the days that hardware detection tools were either primitive, or buggy.

But currently a properly configured udev/hal does the same job way more reliably. IMO Mandriva should consider obsoleting it- it's not needed anymore.