Hi Derek: I followed your recommendations and lo and behold, the mouse is working again (after reboot). A million thanks to you, Derek. Also Merci to the folks who responded to my appeal for help.
thu ps I had to open the console 'by hand' as CTL+ALT+F1 crashed the system. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Derek Jennings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 6:13 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Help: I need my mouse back > On Wednesday 05 Nov 2003 4:29 pm, Phan N. Thu wrote: > > Hi everybody > > > > My mouse (a USB MiniWheel Logitech) had been detected at install of 9.1 and > > working perfectly for about a month.Then I got ambitious and went to > > Harddrake and added 'Logitech' to the default setting of USB / WHEEL. Ever > > since, no more mouse. I know it isn't the mouse 'cause it continues to > > work perfectly under Windows (dual-boot) but I don't know enough CLI > > commands to restore the original mouse configuration. The info I got when I > > do 'harddrake2' in the console is for the mouse: USB WHEEL 5BUTTONS so I > > presume therein lies the trouble? It's a regular 2-button wheel mouse. I > > need to know the proper configuration file: is it /etc/devfs/conf.d which > > had usbmouse.conf in it. This is where I committed the second mistake by > > deleting usbmouse.conf and haven't been able to restore it. Help is > > urgently requested and will be gratefully received. > > Log into a text console ( Ctl+Alt+F1 ) as root > and enter > mousedrake > > (Ctl +Alt+F7 to get back again) > > derek > > -- > ---------------------------------- > www.jennings.homelinux.net > http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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