09-12-2003
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.
Last edited by OllieTech; 09-12-2003 at 07:30 AM..
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LEARN ABOUT MOJAVE
install_mouse
install_mouse(3alleg4) Allegro manual install_mouse(3alleg4)
NAME
install_mouse - Installs the Allegro mouse handler.
SYNOPSIS
#include <allegro.h>
int install_mouse();
DESCRIPTION
Installs the Allegro mouse handler. You must do this before using any other mouse functions.
RETURN VALUE
Returns -1 on failure, zero if the mouse handler is already installed (in which case this function does nothing) and the number of buttons
on the mouse if the mouse handler has successfully been installed (ie. this is the first time a handler is installed or you have removed
the previous one).
Note that the number of mouse buttons returned by this function is more an indication than a physical reality. With most devices there is
no way of telling how many buttons there are, and any user can override the number of mouse buttons returned by this function with a custom
configuration file and the variable num_buttons. Even if this value is overridden by the user, the global mouse variables will still report
whatever the hardware is sending.
SEE ALSO
remove_mouse(3alleg4), poll_mouse(3alleg4), mouse_x(3alleg4), show_mouse(3alleg4), get_mouse_mickeys(3alleg4), position_mouse(3alleg4),
set_mouse_range(3alleg4), set_mouse_speed(3alleg4)
Allegro version 4.4.2 install_mouse(3alleg4)