Do you have a USB-to-PS/2 adapter? I had that problem with the Logitech
Cordless MouseMan+ that came with my Freedom Pro Cordless set, plugged it
into PS/2, and it worked flawlessly, wheel and all.
You could try fiddling with the protocol, but I just gave up instead.
(This is actually on a Debian system, but the core subsystems involved
should work the same.)
-- Asheesh.
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek wrote:
> When I plugged the PowerScroll USB mouse into my box a driver was loaded
> saying that a mouse was found.
> I didn't find any complaints in the log.
> After some searching I linked /dev/usbmouse to /dev/mouse.
> After some more searching I concluded I do not know whot protocol should
> I use for my mouse so I runned mousedrake (or how that thing is called )
> and selected USB Wheel mouse in menu. When my gpm was restarted by
> mousedrake it became unusable. When I restarted X I was only able to
> move the cursor up and down, not left/right, no clicks. When I tried USB
> generic mouse I got the same.
> I could possibly try to select some protocol manually and possibly
> exchange my kernel. But is there anybody who already solved this?
> I'm using Mandrake 8.1, no updates (no net).
> In win2k the mouse worked flawlessly w/o any special drivers.
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