John H Loizides wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I am trying to use a vaio usb mouse on my laptop running redhat 7.1.
Mouse is pretty much mouse. I have RH 7.0 installed on my PCG-F430, but that
won't matter much.
> During the configuration of redhat it worked fine. Once I boot into linux
> it does not work by my scratch pad does. Does anyone know how to cure this
> problem, and have both scratch pad and mouse working. I am running
> Xfree86 4.03.
I assume that "it does not work" means that you move the mouse, but nothing
happens. What do you get from the output of cat /dev/input/mice? Any weird
looking characters? If not, you have a kernel config problem, and need to look
at the Linux USB Guide, linked off http://www.linux-usb.org
If you get characters, you probably have an X configuration problem. Basically
you need to set up a dual mouse installation. Here is a couple of relevant
extracts from my XF86Config-4 file.
<extract>
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
</extract>
<extract>
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
</extract>
These two configuration fragments link the /dev/input/mice output into the X
server.
If you need more specific help, you must ask specific questions, and provide
the specific information requested in the FAQ and the Linux USB Guide.
Brad
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