On Mon August 6 2007 20:05, Rajko M. wrote: > On Monday 06 August 2007 09:15:29 pm John R. Sowden wrote: > > I wrote about this about 2 weeks ago with no response. Noew I have more > > info. Suse 9.3. When I boot up, I have to perform the following each > > time in order to be able to use the mose: > > Alt-F1 -> select System -> Select Terminal -> Select Konsole > > su -> (password) > > yast > > select hardware -> select mouse -> select ps2 mouse -> > > select test (mouse works) -> select accept -> select quit > > > > It sounds like the mouse config is no being written to disk. > > What is the file name. Any ides to solve? > > Hi John, > > Look what is written in /etc/X11/xorg.conf in Section "InputDevice". > There are at least 2 of them, one for keyboard and one for mouse. > Here is an example from xorg.conf (openSUSE 10.3 Alpha 7): > Section "InputDevice" > Driver "mouse" > Identifier "Mouse[1]" > Option "Buttons" "7" > Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" > Option "Name" "USB Mouse" > Option "Protocol" "explorerps/2" > Option "Vendor" "Sysp" > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > EndSection > > Layout in 9.3 can be different, as Xorg server is developed in a meantime. > > The other place to look would be > /var/log/Xorg.0.log > to see is mouse recognized and loaded. > For instance: > grep mouse /var/log/Xorg.0.log > gives > (II) LoadModule: "mouse" > (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//input/mouse_drv.so > (II) Module mouse: vendor="X.Org Foundation" > ...etc. > > Third is command > dmesg > actually: > dmesg | grep mouse > which should give: > mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice > > A question for you: > Why don't you upgrade to openSUSE 10.2? > If your computer runs 9.3 it will run even better 10.2. > That is my experience with an old box with 256 MB RAM and 500 MHz CPU. > Second benefit is that 10.2 will have security updates for more than a > year, while 9.3 is out of maintenace. > > -- > Regards, > Rajko. Thank you for your in depth response. I looked at the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and found approx what you said.
When I went to /var/log/Xorg.0.log, this is what I found: II) LoadModule: "mouse" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/mouse_drv.o (II) Module mouse: vendor="X.Org Foundation" (**) Mouse[1]: Device: "/dev/mouse" (**) Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/mouse (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/mouse Re: installing 10.2, I have 10.1, which I have installed on another computer. When I attempted to install it on this machine (the 9.3 one), I got a lot of dependency errors, more than my knowledge of Linux would allow me to solve. I have been looking and have not found an explanation of the differences between 10.1 and 10.2, including the suse site. I will wait until I set up another computer. Basically, I have seen this since Suse 6.2, new version, new computer (or hard drive). Maybe I will learn something at Linuxworld tomorrow. thanks, -- John R. Sowden AMERICAN SENTRY SYSTEMS, INC. Residential & Commercial Alarm Service UL Listed Central Station Serving the San Francisco Bay Area Since 1967 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.americansentry.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
