[TriLUG] help with usb mouse

[Mike McLean]

Are you sure usb is working?  Have you used other usb devices on this
machine before?  

Donald Ball wrote:
> 
> hey guys. i just got my gf a nice new USB Microsoft Wireless Intellimouse
> Explorer. yeah, whatever, they make great mice generally. anyway, i can't
> get it working in X under linux, wonder if y'all can give me a hand? i'm
> using XFree86-4.1.0 under Mandrake-8.1 with the evil nvidia drivers. when
> i start X using after running mousedrake, i get weirdness; the mouse
> pointer will only move up and down and the keys don't work reliably. i
> checked and in my X conf file, the protocol is set to IMPS/2. that seems
> wrong. i referred to this document:
> 
> http://xfree86.org/4.1.0/mouse6.html
> 
> which seemed like a good resource to me. it says:
> 
> To use this mouse as the USB device and the OS supports the generic HID
> protocol:
> 
> Option  "Protocol"      "usb"
> 
> To use this mouse as the USB device and the OS supports automatic mouse
> detection:
> 
> Option  "Protocol"      "Auto"
> 
> i tried both of these options to no avail. i believe the "Auto" protocol
> gave me no mouse movement at all, while the "usb" protocol gave me an X
> error saying that the usb protocol was unrecognized. interesting enough,
> mousedrake didn't even edit the correct XF86Config file, but i reckon
> that's mandrake's problem. anyway, anyone got any clues for me?
> 
> - donald
> 
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