On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 16:31, Liyun Yu wrote: > We have a studnet at UNC who is trying to install the logitech mouse to > his laptop with the touchpad on it. He is running Mandrake 8.2 on it. > Would anyone help him please answer this question? > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Currently i am just very annoyed by the mouse malfunctioning. > I have a logitech optical wheel mouse (model number M-BD58). > I can't get it work under Mandrake 8.2. It's no use to > set it up with Mouseconfig. I don't know what else it will change with > mouseconfig, but i do know it will change the following files > /etc/systemconfig/mouse* and /etc/X11/XF86Config and > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. When i mouseconfig to "USB/wheel", not only the > mouse won't work, the touchpad was killed too. I followed some examples > > on the web, manually change some parameters in XF86Config and > XF86Config-4. Neither works. Do you know what might be the problem? > > Thanks, > > Liyun >
Mandrake mouse wheel support is a bit funky while setting up, but once set up it works quite well. The problem is that if you change the type of mouse, and go to test it with the little graphical representation of a mouse, you must *first* move the mouse wheel up and down for a while. If you try to do anything else first, the mouse cursor will go wild and won't do what you want. Everything will be ok, however, if you just move the mouse wheel up and down. After a while, the mouse will start acting normal again and everything will be ok. I have no clue why it does this, but it does work. Tanner -- Tanner Lovelace | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://wtl.wayfarer.org/ --*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-- GPG Fingerprint = A66C 8660 924F 5F8C 71DA BDD0 CE09 4F8E DE76 39D4 GPG Key can be found at http://wtl.wayfarer.org/lovelace.gpg.asc --*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-- Si hoc legere scis, nimium eruditionis habes. _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
