[TriLUG] Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse

Peter Long petelong at petelong.com
Sat Jun 5 15:07:49 EDT 2004


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Yup. The mouse is working via the KVM as well as plugged directly into
the PS2 port.

Peter Long

Turnpike Man wrote:

| Glad to hear you got it working!  I couldn't have sent you my mouse
|
config
| anyway, as I don't currently have any linux installed on this
machine.  I used
| the spare HD from my removable tray in April when my main server
puked all over
| itself; haven't bought one b/c the drive is still under warrenty
| and
I finally
| got an RMA and am shipping the drive off tomorrow for replacement.
|
| So the mouse works directly AND through the KVM now?  Just curious.
|
|
| laters, David M
|
| --- Peter Long <petelong at petelong.com> wrote:
|

| Nevermind I got it working. My problem was one of two things: 1.
| The USB connector was not plugged into the USB/PS2 adapter
| properly. 2. Or my XF86Config mouse protocol was wrong. It used to
| read Protocal "auto" I changed it to "IMPS/2". It seems auto is not
| very automatic.
|
| David, thanks for the assistance.
|
| Peter Long
|
| Peter Long wrote:
|
| | 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 |

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