USB mouse in an Toshiba notebook

[obdulio]

I have a Toshiba Satellite and installed Mandrake 9.0 on it. With some help from this forum (thanks again, Dolda), I got the X server to work.

Now I'm trying to configure a USB wheel mouse. The built in touch pad mouse works fine, but the USB mouse is dead. I move the mouse and the pointer is dead.

Tried with mouseconfig, selected USB wheel and nothing happened.

Any help will be appreciated

Thanks in advance

[Dolda2000]

Try configuring your mouse as a USB mouse again, then check your /etc/X11/XF86Config. If that file is correctly configured for your USB mouse (the fault may lie elsewhere), it should have at least one Mouse InputDevice sections where the "Device" option reads "/dev/input/mice".

[andutt]

Also make sure that you have the usb-support enabled in bios.

regards

[Dolda2000]

That shouldn't be necessary. Except for APM, Linux doesn't use the BIOS once it has booted completely.

[nomar]

How about trying this. Ok. In your XF86Config file add the section below starting Identifier Section "InputDevice".

One you've done this add the line:

InputDevice "DevInputMice" "AlwaysCore"

to your Server layout, so it looks like the example below.

Make sure that Mouse0 is actually set up as a USB mouse as well.

I have no idea if this will solve your problem, but there should be no harm in trying!

nomar.

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "DevInputMice" "AlwaysCore"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# If the normal CorePointer mouse is not a USB mouse then
# this input device can be used in AlwaysCore mode to let you
# also use USB mice at the same time.
Identifier "DevInputMice"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection

[ntlab]

I had a similar problem. Like a dumbass I left my mouse connected to my laptop while I was installing RH9 and it didn't detect my touch pad correctly. So I had to go into Applications>System Settings > Mouse and select the ALPS Glidepoint (PS/2) and now all my "Mice" work correctly.