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["John R. Sowden" <jsowden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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,
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