[TriLUG] Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse

[Peter Long]

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Well at least I now know of someone else that has it working. I had no
luck getting it to work directly connected to the gentoo machine.
Would you mind sending me your mouse config section from XF86Config?
Also does lsmod show mousedev loaded?

Thanks

Peter Long


Turnpike Man wrote:

| I'm not sure this may change things, but have you tried it directly
|
on your box
| instead of through the KVM??  I've got a M$ optical wireless and it
|
has run
| fine with RH 9, FC1, MDK 9.x etc. all directly connected to the
| box,
no KVM
| involved.  I've never tried gentoo but can't imagine it wouldn't
| work.
|
| good luck, David M.
|
| --- Peter Long wrote:
|

| Hi all,
|
| I am in the process of trying to get my new Microsoft Wireless
| Optical Mouse to work on Gentoo. I have had little luck searching
| google. I saw a few comments out how seamlessly it worked for other
| people. So I can only assume I am doing something stupid. Any tips
| would be greatly appreciated.
|
| Note I have it plugged into the PS/2 port on my KVM switch. Neither
| my gentoo or the redhat 8.0 machine recognise the mouse. I read
| somewhere that I need the mousedev module loaded. I tried that to
| no avail.
|
| Thanks in advance.
|
| Peter Long

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