Mosue Not Working

Forum: X and Fluxbox
Topic: Mosue Not Working
started by: uncledave1969

Posted by uncledave1969 on July 21 2007,05:50

I am running DSL from CD. When Everything Loads my mouse does not work.
I have gone into xsetup.sh and tried every option to get it to work but nothing.
I am getting very frustrated with this problem..I have posted on other linux forums
with now replies whatsoever. When I run the Cd on other computers everything
works fine. I am having the problem on an old

AcerPower 4000
233mhz
32mb ram
4gig hd

any sugestions?

could use the help..............Thanx!!

Posted by curaga on July 21 2007,06:33

What kind of mouse? touchpad, stick etc?

Posted by uncledave1969 on July 21 2007,06:39

sorry for not posting that...it is a ps/2 scroll mouse

Posted by curaga on July 21 2007,06:43

is it recognized on boot? ie do you see a message "mouse is p/s2 scrollwheel" etc anything related to mouse?

Also check if the kernel recognizes it: in Aterm type

Quote

dmesg | grep -i mouse

Posted by uncledave1969 on July 21 2007,06:48

yes it is recognized on boot....it says

Generic PS/2 Wheel Mouse /dev/psaux

Posted by curaga on July 21 2007,06:51

does it happen to be a usb mouse with a ps2 convert plug?
I have one of those and they don't work if I boot with "nousb"

Posted by uncledave1969 on July 21 2007,06:56

no...just regular ps/2

Posted by curaga on July 21 2007,06:57

okay, I have no idea, it should work....

Long shot, but could a irq conflict be possible?

Posted by uncledave1969 on July 21 2007,07:05

its possible!....I heared that one time before...they said to disable plug n play and then it should work....but...my bios does not have plug n play.

Posted by curaga on July 21 2007,07:14

Well, what does your bios have?
if the irq's are listed there, check that the mouse does not have same as some else device. Even if it doesn't share one with any device, could try changing it's irq to another free number and see if that helps

Posted by uncledave1969 on July 21 2007,07:16

it does not have an IRQ it just says

PS/2 Mouse..........Installed

Posted by jpeters on July 21 2007,15:06

As an option: I use a logitech wireless usb mouse on my laptops; works great.

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on July 21 2007,20:03

It could be conflicting with an embedded mouse pointer, i.e. on your laptop.

You could try disabling that. (or even try a full xserver, which might have better handling)

Posted by uncledave1969 on July 22 2007,04:17

Quote (^thehatsrule^ @ July 21 2007,16:03)

It could be conflicting with an embedded mouse pointer, i.e. on your laptop.

You could try disabling that. (or even try a full xserver, which might have better handling)

I am on a destop not a laptop............And still i have not been able to get the mouse to work.....