On Thu, 01 Feb 2001, you wrote:
On Wednesday 31 January 2001 18:19, Jack Reilly wrote:
The mouse is a three button Logitech Mouseman. The keyboard is VA LInux oem that appears to be standard. Yast identifies it as type PC 104. The connectors go to PS/2 ports. I neglect to mention that I have two PCs and a mac connected to a Belkin OmniCube for common use of keyboard, mouse, and monitor. The monitor is a NECMultiSync FP950. Both PCs have been running RedHat without any problem.
It often happens that when the mouse isn't properly configured the x-server flips out and kills the keyboard too (sometimes it doesn't even start at all 'cos of the mouse), so your keyboard is probably configured properly. I don't know the 3-button LM mouse but I know that some of them run the config as the MS Intellimouse (mine is that). IMPS/2 protocol and PS/2 mouse should have the device configured; /dev/psaux. This is my mouse in the /etc/XF86Config file: -- Section "Pointer" Protocol "IMPS/2" Device "/dev/psaux" SampleRate 60 BaudRate 1200 ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection -- If you are a Linux newbie and you don't know how to boot up in text mode, or change into another virtual desktop to edit your /etc/XF86Config file with emacs or vi then let us know.
After using linux a couple of years I was beginning to feel like I was emerging from the newbie category but this problem with Suse has me right back there. I tried using your config and some variations as well, But all I get is a mouse that keeps returning to the lower left corner of the screen so is not usable. Then I tried another mouse. It's a MS mouse port compatible 2.1A. With the BIOS USB IRQ enabled I got by the correction in the desktop test ok. Then I opened Netscape, got to the Suse site and moved around a bit. But when I tried to enlarge the small window I lost the mouse and the kb. When I turn power off and on to reboot I usually end up with "fsck failed" mess which I don't want to tackle so have to repeat the install. This time the reboot went ok and in "dmesg" I see some lines I haven't noticed before: usb-uhci.c: Intel USB controller: setting latency timer to zero. usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd400, IRQ5 usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports usn.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 usb.c: USB hub found usb.c: 2 ports detected In the meantime the Red Hat machine and the mac go along fine and don't care what mouse I use. Jack