> I need some help with X Windows folks. I just found out that the video
> chipset on my Asus SP97-V motherboard (SiS5598 chipset) is not supported by
> Linux. So I went out today and bought a Diamond Viper 330. I got a really
> good deal on it. I was able to make X Windows work but my mouse doesn't
> work. I think I selected the right server and X Windows will start but the
> mouse won't move. I have a Microsoft 2 button mouse plugged onto Comm1,
> ttyS0. Do anybody have any tricks I could try to make this work? Thanks in
> advance, Ronald.
I had similar problems with a Microsoft serial mouse under Red Hat
5.1. It would work right after I ran mouseconfig, but if I exited
X and restarted it it stopped working again. I switched to another
Logitech PS/2 mouse and the problem went away (I have several
Logitech mice for my various computers...love 'em). I later read
something about the MS serial mouse being a "smart" mouse that
waited for some kind of system call from Windows before it would
work. There was a work around that basically involved "waking up"
the mouse when X started up, but unfortunately I can't remember
what or where it was. Try an AltaVista advanced search on
"microsoft mouse" NEAR linux.
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Bill Kocik
Information Systems
Medar, Inc.
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