Thanks Jason,
I will take a look
Fred
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 11:31 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop
I have those files for you now...hope they help!!
Cheers
Jason
Mungandi, Fred wrote:
> 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
> >
> > Lusaka, Zambia
> > Tel: +260-1-254303
> > Fax: +260-1-254532
> > Cell: +260-97-841560
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> >
>
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