Hi,
I am a newbie to Linux. Over the weekend, I installed Mandrake 9.0 on a Toshiba Satellite 1905-S301 laptop. The little devil is powered by a P4 running at 2 GHz, has 40 GB HDD and 256 MB RAM. I installed it in a dual boot arrangement with Windows XP.
The laptop has a touch pad mouse, which I do not use. Instead I use a Genius PowerScroll USB mouse connected through one of the two USB ports. It has no PS2 port at all. I also hooked up a USB keyboard in the remaining USB port.
The problem is that the USB mouse does not work well. When X starts, the mouse only moves in the vertical direction with no horizontal movement at all. When I remove the mouse during startup and plug it in later when X has started, all goes well. It seems that hell breaks loose during startup, probably during auto probe. Could this be a problem with modprobe? Do I need a USB mouse driver of some sort? Please help I am very desperate. I am on the verge of giving up.
Fred Mungandi
Lusaka, Zambia
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