Noob needs help getting mouse to work.

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Noob needs help getting mouse to work.
started by: woody

Posted by woody on April 01 2006,12:49

Hello, I have DSL live CD it all loads up but my mouse and maybe keyboard doesn’t seem to work, I also have ubuntu live CD and my mouse & keyboard work ok. I am a total DSL and Linux in general noob, what many of you take for granted goes right over my head .
So I was wondering if anyone could help me out with some step by step, how to, where to instructions to try and get things working.

My mouse is optical and USB type also.
Cheers.

Posted by cbagger01 on April 01 2006,21:06

Try and boot up with this command:

dsl xsetup

and then choose USB mouse.

Posted by SShadow on April 04 2006,13:54

Odd, I did that (actually found that info in the FAQ) but my scroll wheel still doesn't work... And the middle mouse button will not close tabs in Firefox like I'd like it to... I'm searching for a mouse config in DSL... But I haven't found it yet... Still searching on here too - this is the first msg I have come across on this topic...

My mouse is an USB MS Optical Explorer 1.0 - and it works fine in Windows.

Posted by cbagger01 on April 05 2006,04:00

When I boot an autodetected USB scrollwheel mouse (Logitech Optical), the scroll was not detected properly.

However, by running xsetup and answering the questions properly, it worked fine.

I did it a slightly different way than the boot-time typing of "dsl xsetup". Instead, I am already up and running and did this:

Press CONTROL-ALT-BACKSPACE to exit back to textmode.
Type:

xsetup.sh

Answer all of the questions.

Type:

startx

to return to graphical mode.

Posted by SShadow on April 06 2006,16:31

Yeah, I got it to work finally... The problem was I was attempting to save my settings to an NTFS partition - which of course is read only - so it wasn't saving the changes I made.

And what a heck of a time I had killing off that NTFS partition... CFDISK wouldn't kill the partition (I'm thinking because it was NTFS and read only, it wouldn't destroy or create a new Linux partition). I actually had to make a Win98 boot disk, FDISK the drive and then run CFDISK.

Anyways, now back on the topic of mice, is there any way to program thumb buttons? I want to make my thumb button on that mouse go back a page in Firefox... But I can't seem to find any info on that - yet.

Posted by woody on April 13 2006,17:35

Hello,
after closer inspection of the back of my PC I don’t think my mouse/keyboard is USB as the connectors are a round shape ( told you I was noob - lol) - anyway it still doesn’t work - but when I load live CD as its detecting hardwear configurations and stuff it detects my mouse in the list - then just before fully loaded theres like a pre screen appears for a fraction of a second and the mouse works/moves on there but not when DSL has fully loaded with final/main screen?