Mouse does not work (booting from a USB Pendrive)

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Mouse does not work (booting from a USB Pendrive)
started by: bravo-uniform-golf

Posted by bravo-uniform-golf on May 09 2007,19:12

Hello,

I downloaded DSL 3.3 recently and have been playing around with it but can't really do much because the mouse does not work.

When I boot DSL on windows using qemu (dsl-base.bat) everything is fine (it is too slow though).

When I boot directly from the USB pendrive, the mouse does not work.

I have been reading and trying stuff without success, thus I am trying this.

I have exited from x windows pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL and have used xsetup.sh. I have tried all available mouse configurations.

I have also tried to create a .mouse_config file because I read about this but it did not work. These were the contents of the file:
xset m 4/1 0
xmodmap -e 'pointer = 1 2 3 4 5'

I have some experience working with Unix but none with Linux. Also I have used Unix as a "user". So if you try to help me, please keep in mind I have no administration knowledge whatsoever. All I know is the basics and the most frequently used commands.

My mouse is ps/2 optical mouse. I have tried with an old ps/2 wheel mouse and it does not work either. I tried a LiveCd of Knoppix a friend gave me years ago and the mouse works fine with that.

Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.
Tonin

Posted by curaga on May 10 2007,14:21

What does it say on boot about the mouse?

Posted by bravo-uniform-golf on May 10 2007,23:14

The text that comes out on the screen at boot time reads as follows:

"Mouse is Generic PS/2 Wheel Mouse at /dev/psaux"

The message is exactly the same when I run DSL within Qemu, on Windows, but with Qemu the mouse works.

I tried once doing "cat /dev/psaux" and then moving the mouse in order to see if characters came out on the screen and they did. I did this because I read about it on some website.

Thanks,
Tonin

Posted by bravo-uniform-golf on May 15 2007,09:51

I got it to work.
Well, it was just the mouse.
The optical mouse I have works perfectly on Windows.
It also works perfectly on DSL when I run it on Windows (Qemu).

When I boot the machine from my USB pendrive with DSL mouse won't work.

I went back to another mouse I had at home and it works. It just a regular ps2 mouse. Not an optical one.

I had tried this before but I guess I did something wrong then. Maybe I did not switch off the computer completely before exchanging mice.

Now I have to get my wireless card to work...
Tonin