On Friday 02 January 2004 1:23 pm, mjt wrote:
On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 12:46:38 -0500, "Paul W. Abrahams" <abrahams@acm.org> wrote:
There are two ways to select the mouse type under Yast2: through Hardware / Select Mouse Model and through Hardware / Graphics Card and Monitor. The latter route gets you into Sax2, which has an Input Devices section.
... there's a third method: apply the entries to the /etc/X11/XF86Config[-4] file :)
The odd thing is that the two modules have very different lists of mice. It's quite mysterious as to how the two selections interact, especially if the selections are different. I ran into an odd problem where my mouse wheel was recognized when it was moving down but not when it was moving up. (I verified by booting into Windows that the hardware was OK.) Eventually by fiddling with the mouse selections I got the upward motion to be recognized too, but I'm very unclear as to what is going on.
... i've seen this before too: it was simply the rwong mouse settings. which make/model mouse are you using and what's its interface?
I'm using a Logitech Trackman Wheelmouse with a PS/2 connection, and that one isn't in either database. So I have to fake it somehow. Paul Abrahams