I'm having a problem getting any mouse to work on my SuSE 9 box (desktop). Everything worked fine after the installation, but after a reboot it stopped working. I ran 'sax2 -a' to autodetect it, and it did and started working again, minus the wheel functionality. As a test, I installed a different wheel mouse to see if I could get the wheel to work. I couldn't get the new mouse to work at all so I went back to the old one. The original mouse doesn't work at all anymore, no matter what I do.
The mouse I'm trying to get back to its original settings is a M$ Optical Wheel Mouse (USB). I tried copying the XFree86-suse9 file to XFree86, but it doesn't do anything.
lsusb Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 003: ID 045e:0040 Microsoft Corp. Wheel Mouse Optical Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
dmesg | grep -i mouse mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice input: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical®] on usb2:2.0 mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice input: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical®] on usb2:3.0
XFree86-suse9 (mice section)
Section "InputDevice" Driver "mouse" Identifier "Mouse[1]" Option "ButtonNumber" "2" Option "Buttons" "5" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "Name" "Autodetection" Option "Protocol" "IntelliMouse" Option "Vendor" "Sysp" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection
XFree86.saxsave (mice section)
Section "InputDevice" Driver "mouse" Identifier "Mouse[1]" Option "Buttons" "5" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "Name" "Autodetection" Option "Protocol" "imps/2" Option "Vendor" "Sysp" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection
Either of those XFree86 files work perfectly on other SuSE 9 systems with those mice installed (including the system I'm writing this from). It used to work on this system, but I don't know what happened.
I have hotplug running, and it does beep when I plug the mouse in while the system is on.
Any help is greatly appreciated, Chris
By the way, I can't get any mouse to work on this system now, whether its PS/2 or USB. I'm not going to reinstall the OS just so I can get a mouse to work. This stuff was easy on Red Hat. Just type kudzu or redhat-config-xfree86 and it would detect and configure everything for you. As much as I like SuSE on the desktop (better than Red Hat/Fedora), I might have to go back to it if I'm going to have problems like this that *should* be very simple to fix. Anyone have any idea's on how to fix this or what could be wrong? I've run out of idea's. Thanks, Chris