I have a M$ wheelmouse optical (not quite an intellimouse) and it works fine. I'm pasting on the mouse section of xf86config file so you can see if it helps. Mind you I dont have the 2 extra side buttons you have but there is info on this in the web, try google search. Section "InputDevice" Driver "mouse" Identifier "Mouse[1]" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "InputFashion" "Mouse" Option "Name" "WHEEL MOUSE (PS/2)" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Vendor" "MICROSOFT" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Resolution" "1500" EndSection the "Resolution" "1500" makes the mouse more responsive, the option for the wheelmouse is the "ZAxisMapping" entry. Good luck and lets know if you have any. Cheers, Curtis On Friday 01 June 2001 04:45 pm, Brian Marr wrote:

Suse 7.1 kernel 2.4.4 XF86 4.0.3

Is anyone successfully using the Microsoft Intellimouse USB Optical under Suse?

Mine is working ok in a terminal (ie F1-F6). Unfortunately, it fails to work in KDE. I have tried yast and sax2 to configure the mouse. XF86Config shows the protocol as auto, but after booting the Xserver says it cannot determine the protocol. Usb seems to be ok. I can do modprobe usbmouse and modprobe hid. One of the error messages shows "error getting string descriptor 0 (error=-6). I think this is related to gpm -used for cutting and pasting between terminals. This seemed to work when I used it.

Any suggestions appreciated The input section for XF86Config would be helpful -probably needs to be for XF86 4.0.3.

Brian Marr

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