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The eternal question - Mouseproblem
For starters,
- Yes I have read the Help Files
- Yes I have searched the forum but without success
Ok, onwards to my problem
I'm a total beginner to Linux, I chose Slack 9 as my first distro, don't ask me why .
Anyhow, the installation was rather painless, everything worked, I logged in and 'startx'
And to my frustration the mouse did/does not work. I've tried allot of settings but some of them gives me error while trying to startx.
So, I will post some lines from my XF86Config and hopefully you will/can help me
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSection
And please be nice
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And the other "eternal question"... What type of mouse?
<edit>
You can find mouse configuration examples at http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/4.3.0/mouse.html
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Doh I thought that I coverd everything
Oh well, it's an Compaq Standard Mouse with 2 buttons, 'Made in China'
I'll have a look on that website, and thanks for the quick response
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Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSection
The above should work.
Ensure /dev/mouse is symlinked from /dev/psaux.
ls -al /dev/mouse
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Feb 2 15:08 /dev/mouse -> /dev/psaux
If not, create the symlink with
ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse
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Gah, my bad
I forgot to manually edit the XF86Config file and replace Auto with PS/2 after i configured it in the console, anyway it works now
I can just say thank you very much
And yes mdwatts, my config looks exactly like that now
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