[TriLUG] TRouble to Install the mouse on Mandaric

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 16:31, Liyun Yu wrote:
> We have a studnet at UNC who is trying to install the logitech mouse to
> his laptop with the touchpad on it. He is running Mandrake 8.2 on it.
> Would  anyone help him please answer this question?
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Currently i am just very annoyed by the mouse malfunctioning.
> I have a logitech optical wheel mouse (model number M-BD58).
> I can't get it work under Mandrake 8.2.  It's no use to
> set it up with Mouseconfig. I don't know what else it will change with
> mouseconfig, but i do know it will change the following files
> /etc/systemconfig/mouse* and /etc/X11/XF86Config and
> /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.  When i mouseconfig to "USB/wheel", not only the
> mouse won't work, the touchpad was killed too.  I followed some examples
> 
> on the web, manually change some parameters in XF86Config and
> XF86Config-4.  Neither works. Do you know what might be the problem?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Liyun
>

Mandrake mouse wheel support is a bit funky while setting up,
but once set up it works quite well.  The problem is that if you
change the type of mouse, and go to test it with the little
graphical representation of a mouse, you must *first* move the
mouse wheel up and down for a while.  If you try to do anything else
first, the mouse cursor will go wild and won't do what you want.
Everything will be ok, however, if you just move the mouse wheel
up and down.  After a while, the mouse will start acting normal
again and everything will be ok.

I have no clue why it does this, but it does work.

Tanner
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