On Tuesday 06 September 2005 23:57, Jeff tapped out:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I have a problem with my mouse. I have a Genius Netscroll + eye Optical
> mouse and am having trouble getting mandrake to recognize it when it
> first starts up.
>
> The mouse was recognized by the installation program and was correctly
> selected during install. After a reboot the mouse doesn't work, I am
> able to log on and run harddrake, where I can configure the mouse. By
> default it always starts with "Universal - Any PS/2 and USB mice"
> selected, I am able to arrow up to PS/2, where I select Standard, the
> mouse test window appears and the mouse starts working. I then cancel
> and select the Generic PS/2 wheel mouse. Everything works nicely until
> the next boot when I have to go through this process again.
>
> The same thing happens if I plug an optical Microsoft usb mouse. It's no
> big deal in itself, as the whole process takes less than 30 seconds, but
> firstly it shouldn't be happening and secondly I'll never get the rest
> of the family to ditch XP while this problem exists.
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Jeff.
I hope you're doing this as "root" and not just as a normal user, right?
Meanwhile, what you CAN try to do is to find out what changes are made to
the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file after you get a working mouse. Clip that code
snippet and save it. Change your booting to runlevel 3 instead of runlevel 5.
After you get logged in, firstly try running "startx" as root => see if the
mouse is flaked out again. If not, you should be able to logoff and login as
yerself and have a working mouse. If it flakes out, then edit
the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file manually, make sure the device settings for the
mouse are the same as in your code snippet. Save, fire up X again and see if
that affects your mouse.
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