mouse problem in mandrake 8.1

[bruce1271]

Hi,

I have a serial mouse on com1 and I was installing mandrkae 8.1. The mouse was working after fine until I got to the install section for the mouse, then it asked what type of mouse, I put in generic serial mouse on com1. Now it doesnt work. I tried all the other options with the mouseconfig, but I cant get it to work. How do I manually get it to work? Or why does it work beofre the config part of the install?

thanks

[bdg1983]

This is how I have both a PS/2 and a serial Glidepoint touchpad setup to both work in X/KDE.

Take note of the 2nd InputDevice Section of which the Identifier has to match the InputDevice Name of the ServerLayout Section.

To find out the correct protocol, buttons and ZAxisMapping to use, check the mouse configuration docs at www.xfree86.org (http://www.xfree86.org)

/dev/ttyS0 is com1 and ttyS1 is com2

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "mouse"
Identifier "A4-Tech"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Buttons" "7"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "mouse"
Identifier "Glidepoint"
Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
Option "Protocol" "GlidePoint"
Option "Buttons" "3"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6"
Option "Resolution" "1600"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "A4-Tech" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Glidepoint" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "keyboard" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection