On 6/19/05, malcolm
Clayton wrote:
This is getting annoying... Setup is SuSE 9.3, and I have a USB mouse. The mouse has been working perfectly... up until recently. Now when I start up SuSE, the mouse doesn't work. If I do an Alt-F2 and start up YaST, then go to Hardware, Mouse Model... and just start up the Mouse Model part of YaST, the mouse starts working again... I dont' save anything or change anything...
I've checked my xorg.conf file and nothing has changed there since the initial install/setup... it looks like this: ------------------------------------- Section "InputDevice" Driver "mouse" Identifier "Mouse[1]" Option "ButtonNumber" "7" Option "Buttons" "5" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "Name" "Logitech USB Trackball" Option "Protocol" "imps/2" Option "Vendor" "Sysp" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection ------------------------------------------
So... anyone have any suggestions why the mouse stoped being initialized on a boot? Or why simpy starting the Mouse Model part of YaST and exiting again without saving anything seems to "wake-up" the mouse?
A couple off-list replies got me started down the right road and I've fixed the problem. For some reason (in my endless tinkering) the device setting in my xorg.conf for the mouse got changed from /dev/input/mice to /dev/mouse. When I was starting up YaST and the Mouse Model module, it was re-querying the mouse, but on the right dev location. I'm not sure why it knew the right dev location.. but... all I had to do was edit my xorg file and point it to /dev/input/mice and now it works exactly like it is supposed to. :-S C.