Intellimouse Explorer

[Hamarin]

Here's on I've been working on for a while. The only thing I've found leading me in any direction is at <a href="http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/intellimouseexplorer.html">http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/intellimouseexplorer.html</a>. Unfortunately. This didn't fix my problem even though it SPECIFICALLY deals with it. I have a USB Intellimouse Explorer. I am running KDE using the 2.4 kernel with Suse 7.1 installed. I have tried editting the /etc/X11/XF86Config file as explained in the link, but when I do and I restart xwindows I can only move my mouse up or right. If I move it down or left it returns my cursor to the very bottom left hand corner of my monitor. I also ran SaX under KDE and told it I had an Intellimouse Explorer USB. When I do that it changed my config to something slightly different than the link from earlier, but it still didn't work. This time I couldn't get any activity out of my mouse at all. Any ideas?

[bdg1983]

Check to see if you have GPM (general purpose mouse for using in console) running as it is known to interfere with X mouse behaviour.

Check for your mouse and configuration options here (http://www.xfree86.org/current/mouse.html).

Searching the forums for 'erratic' will find you more posts on the topic.

[Hamarin]

It seems all the places I found here were beating around the bush. I needed an NHF in order to understand it.... I've lived in a microsoft world for so long that this is such a struggle, but I'm learning a real operating system now ;)..... The final step to finding the answer I found at http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/lmarks_imwheel_setup.html