Slack 10.1 and Microsoft intellimouse 4.0

**turok** · 05-09-2005

Hi, thanks for stopping by, well, lets see, i have just instaled slackware 10.1 on my pc, i have already configured xorg and started X, but i'm having some trouble with my Microsoft usb mouse, when i move it, the cursor on the screen moves but not like it is suposed to, for example, i move the mouse horizontaly and the cursor moves verticaly, and buttons do not work :S, can anyone help me please ? should i change something in my xorg.conf file ?
Thanks

**budman7** · 05-09-2005

Does this mouse have a trackball. If it does, it should be cleaned.
At least that is what it looks like to me.

**turok** · 05-09-2005

no, sorry, i should have explaind a bit more, the mouse is optical, in fact it doesnt have a trackbal, the problem is the mouse inst well configured, based in another post in this formu i changed the "protcol" part in the mosue section of the xorg.conf but i didnt got any results, in fact it worked the same way

**budman7** · 05-09-2005

Did you change the protocol to "IMPS/2"?
Could you post the mouse section of your xorg.conf file.

**duffman108** · 05-11-2005

I had some what the same trouble so I finaly got fed up with it and just went out and bought a new mouse. Had trouble in suse 9.1...

**turok** · 05-11-2005

yes, i did change it to "imps/2" but i didnt notice any change

***Dapper Dan*** · 05-11-2005

I had this very same problem with my Logitech optical mouse. I fixed it by creating a new symlink in /dev...

Code:

rm /dev/mouse

Code:

ln -s /dev/input/mice /dev/mouse

Then, configured /etc/X11/xorg.config thusly...

Code:

# **********************************************************************
# Core Pointer's InputDevice section
# **********************************************************************

Section "InputDevice"

# Identifier and driver

    Identifier "Mouse1"
    Driver "mouse"
    Option "Buttons" "5"
    Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
    Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"

It fixed mine. I hope it helps....

**budman7** · 05-11-2005

Originally Posted by turok

yes, i did change it to "imps/2" but i didnt notice any change

You changed it to "IMPS/2" or "imps/2"?
They are not the same.
Does your Input device section look like Dapper Dan's?

**turok** · 05-11-2005

well, i did exactly what Dapper Dan said, so mi xorg.conf is exactly like that, but i had no changes, i also have a ps2 mouse, so it would be grate if anyone could help me to configure it as a secondary mouse, but if i could make mi usb mouse work it would be better. Any suggestions to try ? Thanks a lot

**turok** · 05-11-2005

i solved it !
well, what i had to do is to uncomment the following lines in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules

/sbin/modprobe usb-uhci
/sbin/modprobe hid
/sbin/modprobe usbmouse
/sbin/modprobe mousedev
/sbin/modprobe evdev

and change the device field in the xorg.xonf to :

Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"

thanks a lot !

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