Gyration USB Mouse, Xorg problems on Slackware 10.0

[emalone2183]

Before starting, have looked at many forums and googled to no avail. If there has been something posted previously, my apologies.

Slack 10.0 is not recognizing my Gyration USB mouse (of Gyration Ultra GT Suite w/ keyboard). I have tried all the configuration options (IMPS/2, auto, etc.). I have tried different input devices.To test, I even plugged in a Logitech MX310 usb mouse and it worked fine.

The Gyration works fine for XFree86 on Mandrake 10 and a Knoppix boot disk. I tried copying those configuration options (typically IMPS/2 on /dev/input/mice) with no success.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[loft306]

The Gyration works fine for XFree86 on Mandrake 10 and a Knoppix boot disk. I tried copying those configuration options (typically IMPS/2 on /dev/input/mice) with no success.

now that is weird ...that was going to be my first sugestion!

secound sugestion is this..try this config

Section "InputDevice" 
    Identifier   "Mouse0"
    Driver       "mouse"
    Option      "Protocol"   "auto"
    Option      "Device"     "/dev/input/mice"
    Option      "Buttons"   "5"
    Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
 EndSection

when all else fails we try the 'auto" protocol

[emalone2183]

Thank you very much! It worked! That had been bugging me for days.

I am guessing the problem was that I needed to specify Mouse0, rather than Mouse1. It pretty much seems obvious now, but why would xorgconfig choose Mouse1? I had been curious as to how Linux interprets two USB input devices connected on one port (that is to say, the wireless receiver). Could that have been the problem?

Again thanks, and I will definitely remember to pass that nugget on in the future.

-E