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Operating Systems Linux Slackware how to activate USB mouse Post 40265 by OllieTech on Friday 12th of September 2003 12:48:54 AM

09-12-2003

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What kind of mouse do you have?

I ran Slack 9 for a little bit on my laptop. Do you have the USB and hotplug modules installed? If I am not mistaken, its an option that is available when you do the initial install. But can be installed after an install by using pkgtool (Should look rather similar to the initial install screens)

When you plug the mouse in, what kind of response do you get from /var/log/messages? Try doing a "tail -f /var/log/messages" and then plug the mouse in. See what kind of error messages get displayed and then we can work from there.

On a different note ...

Please keep in mind that Slackware is not intended to be a Red Hat or a Mandrake Linux. It's a more traditional pure Linux that keeps the configuration at its roots in the config files and does not use all fancy menu config and X windows crap. (Sorry, I am biased) You said you wanted to learn, so here ya go, its your first challenge. Go for it. Reinstalling is like admitting failure. Linux is very flexible and a lot can be done and fixed, or reconfigured, or added to it, without it needing to be reinstalled.

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input-linux-mouse

input-linux-mouse(7)							GGI						      input-linux-mouse(7)

NAME

       input-linux-mouse - Direct mouse input

SYNOPSIS

       input-linux-mouse: [<mousetype>] [,<file>] [,[b<bauds>][r<rts>][d<dtr>]]

DESCRIPTION

       This input opens a file (usually a device file or pipe) and reads mouse protocol data from it.

OPTIONS

       mousetype
	      Indicates what type of mouse is attached.  The following types are supported:

	      o   ms, Microsoft : Two button Microsoft compatible mice.

	      o   ms3, IntelliMouse, mman+ : Serial Intellimouse or compatible. Supports four buttons for mice like the Logitech MouseMan+.

	      o   MouseSystems, msc : MouseSystems compatible (used in most 3-button mice).

	      o   Logitech, logi :  Used in older Logitech serial mice.

	      o   mm, MMSeries :    MM series mice.

	      o   Sun : Sun mice. The protocol is the same as 'msc' protocol except it used only 3 bytes per packet.

	      o   MouseMan, mman :  MouseMan protocol.

	      o   BusMouse, bm : Non-PS/2 busmice.

	      o   LinuxUSB, lnxusb : IMPS2 that doesn't choke on USB (no init attempted).

	      o   ps2, PS/2 : PS/2 mice (most non-serial mice use this protocol)

	      o   imps2, IMPS/2 : PS/2 IntelliMouse and compatible (not USB, see lnxusb for that.)

	      o   mmanps2, MouseManPlusPS/2 : PS/2 Logitech MouseMan+ and compatible.

	      Most of the strings supported by GPM, SVGAlib and XFree can be specified.  If you find one that isn't, please report.

	      The  special  value  auto  tells input-linux-mouse to read ~/.ggi/input/linux-mouse, and if that fails, $sysconfdir/ggi/input/linux-
	      mouse.  If none of the two files are found, input-linux-mouse tries to auto-detect the mouse, and as a last resort  uses	the  mouse
	      information specified in /etc/vga/libvga.config.

       file   The file to read mouse protocol data from; defaults to /dev/mouse.

       baud   Baud rate of mouse device.

       rts    Turns off RTS if set to 0; turns RTS on if set to a number greater than 0.

       dtr    Turns off DTR if set to 0; turns DTR on if set to a number greater than 0.

FEATURES

       o   Generates evPtr* events.

FILES

       ~/.ggi/input/linux-mouse and $sysconfdir/ggi/input/linux-mouse consists of the following entries:

       mouse mousetype
       mdev file

       where mousetype and file has the same semantics as the invocation options of the same names.

libgii-1.0.x							    2003-08-11						      input-linux-mouse(7)