[Techtalk] Mouse Problems in Suse 10

[Helen]

Thanks for the pointer in the right direction
I went home at lunch time and made some changes and the mouse now works, I
totally forgot about the xorg.conf file

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver       "mouse"
  Identifier   "Mouse[1]"
  Option       "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
  Option       "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
  Option       "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Thanks again

Helen



This is what I had originally after completing the Suse10 upgrade from Suse9

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




Hi,

I'm no expert in SUSE so I won't pretend I know the major differences
from version 9 to version 10.
I do however have three working options as to the mouse devices I can
use with this computer: a PS/2, a touchpad and a USB mouse that I can
plug in/out as I need/want.  My system runs Gentoo with a 2.6.15
kernel, xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 and is pure udev.  The relevant section in
'/etc/X11/xorg.conf' is:
<code>
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "PS/2 Mouse"
Driver      "mouse"
Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option      "Device" "/dev/misc/psaux"
Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option      "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
Option     "SendCoreEvents"  "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "USB Mouse"
Driver      "mouse"
Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option      "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
       Option      "Buttons" "5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "TouchPad"
Driver      "synaptics"
Option      "Protocol"   "Auto"
        Option      "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option      "Device"     "/dev/input/mouse0"
Option      "LeftEdge"   "1700"
Option      "RightEdge"  "5300"
Option      "TopEdge"    "1700"
Option      "BottomEdge" "4200"
Option      "FingerLow"  "25"
Option      "FingerHigh" "30"
Option      "MaxTapTime" "180"
Option      "MaxTapMove" "220"
Option      "VertScrollDelta" "100"
Option      "MinSpeed"   "0.02"
Option      "MaxSpeed"   "0.10"
Option      "AccelFactor" "0.0010"
Option      "SHMConfig" "on"
EndSection
</code>

First I had to figure out if the mouse was detected by the kernel.
Your device will either be seen as '/dev/input/mouse0' or
'/dev/input/mice'.  Please do
#cat /dev/input/mouse0
move the mouse around and if you see some "stuff" written to the
screen then this is it.   If your mouse isn't detected, verify that
all the necessary modules are loaded.   If your mouse is detected,
fill in the device in the appropriate InputDevice section, as in the
section above.

Hope this helps some.
--
Marize Pommot-Maia
marize at gmail.com
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