SuSe 6.2 mouse installation

[jgemmeke]

I have a perfectly normal 3 button logitech mouse on com1. It's working fine under windows 98. But SuSe doesn't see it. Can it be my other hardware that troubles?
I have an monster sound mx200, an dynalink pci modem (intern) and a diamand stealth video card (III S540)

[asian]

Hi
Check the serial port setting and
IRQ under Win98. Perhaps there is
a mistake on kernel configuration?
Try setserial and mouseconfig
command. Perhaps you can remove
the internal modem + sound card
and re-compile the kernel to
check IRQ conflict?
Regards

[furrycat]

I presume you mean you can't use it in X. If this is the case, edit your XF86Config file and change the bit which talks about your mouse protocol to the correct setting. For a Logitech mouse, MouseMan will probably work, but you can try different settings by running xf86config a few times and selecting various protocols. Read the manpage for XF86Config to get details on all the different mouse protocols...

For example, here are the lines from my XF86Config:

Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "MouseMan"
Option "Protocol" "/dev/mouse"

The above is for X4.0 but it isn't too difficult to figure out what to change in X3.

In the case above you'd also need to make sure that /dev/mouse points to ttys0 (COM1 in DOS-speak) but I'd imagine SuSE did this for you.