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, -- John R. Sowden AMERICAN SENTRY SYSTEMS, INC. Residential & Commercial Alarm Service UL Listed Central Station Serving the San Francisco Bay Area Since 1967 mail@americansentry.net www.americansentry.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org