Jason,
Thanks for the tips. I will try tweaking the XF86Config-4 file. Please send me you config file.
Thanks,
Fred Mungandi
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 7:52 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop
Don't give up!! You can get it to work I am reasonable certain of that.
Though, Toshiba hardware is notorious for not playing nicely with Linux
(they have staff that they employ jointly with MS=).
I have gotten mine to work on my work box (an ASUS) by tweaking the
XF86Config/-4 files by hand. They are on my work box or I would email
them to you now. Basically you need to use the "send core events"
argument for your usb mouse so it pipes the output through the normal mouse.
I can get you my files as a sample tomorrow unless someone else has some
handy or knows the changes that need to be made to those files. BTW,
they are found in /etc/X11/
Cheers
Jason Greenwood
Mungandi, Fred wrote:
> 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
>
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