Hello All, Can I ask for your help in setting up a mouse in Mandrake 9.0? Sounds simple, but...
My PS/2 mouse stopped working on my AMD400 (5-6 years old) with Mandrake 9.0 and Windows 95 installed (I have actually used Linux exclusively for over a year now, but have not bothered to remove Win95). The mouse did not work in Win95 either, so I replaced it (the mouse). Still no mouse in either OS. My guess is that the PS/2 mouse port on the motherboard may be damaged, the machine is old and has been moved many times (although I am willing to listen to alternative theories!) So, I dug out an old Microsoft serial mouse. It works in Win95, but sadly not in Mandrake. I ran harddrake2 and mousedrake, and the XF86Config-4 and XF86Config files reflect that (contents below), but still no mouse. Help! Another thing: I have Mandrake 9.1 on a much newer machine at work (6 months old). I took out the PS/2 mouse from it and tried the same serial mouse, and on bootup Mandrake 9.1 detected the new hardware, configured it and it worked. This could be due to the newer machine, or 9.1, or both. I would be very grateful for any assistance or suggestions. Regards, Bill Chivers Relevant contents of XF86Config-4: Section "ServerFlags" AllowMouseOpenFail EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver mouse Option "Protocol" "Microsoft" Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0" (I tried ttyS1) Option "Emulate3Buttons" Option "Emulate3Timeout" "50" EndSection Section "ServerLayout" InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" EndSection ... and XF86Config: Section "ServerFlags" AllowMouseOpenFail EndSection Section "Pointer" Protocol "Microsoft" Device "/dev/ttyS0" (I tried ttyS1) Emulate3Buttons Emulate3Timeout 50 EndSection --------------------------------------------- William J. Chivers Lecturer in Information Technology School of DCIT Faculty of Science and Information Technology University of Newcastle---Ourimbah Campus PO Box 127, Ourimbah, NSW 2259 Australia phone: +61 2 4349 4473 fax: +61 2 4348 4145 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
