On Friday 31 January 2003 05:36 pm, robin wrote: > Dennis Myers wrote: > > On Friday 31 January 2003 06:03 am, et wrote: > >>On Thursday 30 January 2003 09:30 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > >>>Having been to the archives and checking my /etc files for the proper > >>>configuration on the mouse, I am still unable to use the wheel as a > >>> wheel or third button. Has anyone an idea of what makes the little > >>> bugger work? TIA for any suggestions. > >> > >>if you cann't trade it in on a logitech, try to set it up as logitech > >>intellimouse and test it and see if that works... works for me... > > > > Ok I am going to go into the corner now and suck my thumb and curl up in > > a tight ball, the durned wheel started working all of a sudden:???????I > > have no idea why, it came up after I looked at the sysconf/mouse files. > > In desperation, here's a dumbo trick I learned in my Windows days. > > 1. Make sure you have some kind of hardware detection daemon running > (in my experience kudzu is the best, but for some reason that doesn't > ship with Mdk any more). > > 2. Remove your mouse and reboot. > > 3. Plug in your mouse and reboot. > > Of course that's the kind of thing you should never have to do in Linux > - a reboot should only be necessary if you're replacing something like > the CPU or motherboard. On the other hand, I've sometimes reinstalled > Mandrake out of sheer laziness - I knew that finding the way to do > something without reinstalling would take me more than an hour, which is > about how long it takes to install and configure Mandrake. > > Sir Robin
Ok I am going to go into the corner now and suck my thumb and curl up in a tight ball, the durned wheel started working all of a sudden:???????I have no idea why, it came up after I looked at the sysconf/mouse files. -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842
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