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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