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The weird thing is, just yesterday it was working perfectly! To retrace, I installed Slackware 10 Sunday and quickly had my mouse configured and working perfectly. Before I edited the xorg.conf file, the pertinent section looked like this:
Code:
**********************************************************************
# Core Pointer's InputDevice section
# **********************************************************************
Section "InputDevice"
# Identifier and driver
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
# On platforms where PnP mouse detection is supported the following
# protocol setting can be used when using a newer PnP mouse:
# Option "Protocol" "Auto"
# The available mouse protocols types that you can set below are:
# Auto BusMouse GlidePoint GlidePointPS/2 IntelliMouse IMPS/2
# Logitech Microsoft MMHitTab MMSeries Mouseman MouseManPlusPS/2
# MouseSystems NetMousePS/2 NetScrollPS/2 OSMouse PS/2 SysMouse
# ThinkingMouse ThinkingMousePS/2 Xqueue
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
# The mouse device. The device is normally set to /dev/mouse,
# which is usually a symbolic link to the real device.
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
# Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
# Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
# Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS1"
# When using XQUEUE, comment out the above two lines, and uncomment
# the following line.
# Option "Protocol" "Xqueue"
# Baudrate and SampleRate are only for some Logitech mice. In
# almost every case these lines should be omitted.
# Option "BaudRate" "9600"
# Option "SampleRate" "150"
This gave me jerky mouse movement and no scroll. I edited xorg.conf thusly:
Code:
********************************************************************** # Core Pointer's InputDevice section # ********************************************************************** Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Buttons" "5" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" # Identifier and driver # Identifier "Mouse1" # Driver "mouse" # On platforms where PnP mouse detection is supported the following # protocol setting can be used when using a newer PnP mouse: # Option "Protocol" "Auto" # The available mouse protocols types that you can set below are: # Auto BusMouse GlidePoint GlidePointPS/2 IntelliMouse IMPS/2 # Logitech Microsoft MMHitTab MMSeries Mouseman MouseManPlusPS/2 # MouseSystems NetMousePS/2 NetScrollPS/2 OSMouse PS/2 SysMouse # ThinkingMouse ThinkingMousePS/2 Xqueue # Option "Protocol" "PS/2" # The mouse device. The device is normally set to /dev/mouse, # which is usually a symbolic link to the real device. # Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" # Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" # Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0" # Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS1" # When using XQUEUE, comment out the above two lines, and uncomment # the following line. # Option "Protocol" "Xqueue" # Baudrate and SampleRate are only for some Logitech mice. In # almost every case these lines should be omitted. # Option "BaudRate" "9600" # Option "SampleRate" "150"
..and the mouse worked perfectly with scroll and smoothly. I then decided to try Emerde, a package manager for Slack that, in theory, allows you to install packages from Gentoo Portage. As it turned out, Emerde quickly ate up the small / partition I'd created, so I then decided to do a re-install on larger partitions. All went successfully. The when I edited my xorg.conf file in exactly the same manner as above, the mouse is all over the place and won't scroll! If i run the courser diagonally up the screen from left to right, the courser disappears about three quarters across and re-appears in the bottom left. Right click doesn't work at all.
I just don't understand it. The first time I edited xorg.conf, the mouse worked perfectly. The second time, all hell breaks loose and I can't get it configured even having checked and re-checked and re-checked that I'd done everything just right!
What could be wrong? What am I missing here?? Could it be the module for the mouse is not getting loaded, and it's defaulting to a module that's giving me the problem? ANY thoughts or suggestions will be much appreciated! Thanks.
