mouse problems

[knavely]

i was trying to get my wheel on my mouse to work, i was playing around with the models,switching it from generic to intlei mouse which is what mine is, and now when i log on the mouse doesnt work. i tried to switch it back to generic with the keyboard but nothing happend.

[girish]

what distro are you using? I'm using Mandrake 7.1 and I have a Logitech FirstMouse+ PS/2. And it used to reconize the wheel until I got my switch, and I don't have that wheel anymore in linux. But my Win2k computer which is on the same switch (different port) works fine. I'm getting a mouseman Optical soon so I'll see if that works through the switch.

Btw when I do try to change the mouse in MouseDrake the mouse starts to act funny, like when I move gnome thinks that I clicked.. etc. Are you having this problem too?

[teeitup]

Check the link in the /dev directory.

ls -l /dev/mouse

If you have a ps2 mouse it should point to /dev/psaux

If it doesn't do this. (as root)
rm /dev/mouse
ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse
ls -l /dev/mouse

It should now point to /dev/psaux

restart X

good luck,



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