My mouse isn't working?

[crazyman07]

Hi,

I'm new to Linux but i have installed many windows OS's on computers before.
So i decided on to try out Linux and someone told me to try out suse.
I didn't want to install it on my computer so, I just downloaded virtualbox and installed SUSE with that.

But now after installing SUSE 11.1 beta, I can't use my mouse.

[thorkelljarl]

With the risk of appearing opinionated, I think you might expect a problem with a buggy beta release, and as a virtual OS. Why not openSUSE 11.0 installed instead of 11.1 beta or 11.0 as a live-cd?

Otherwise open a terminal and type "man sax2" then try it, perhaps as "sax2 -r" as root (su) and see if it finds your mouse. I think you will have to restart X (Ctl+Alt+Back) thereafter. Luck

[scrarfussi]

Welcome to the forum's please give us more detail's about your system

[crazyman07]

With the risk of appearing opinionated, I think you might expect a problem with a buggy beta release, and as a virtual OS. Why not openSUSE 11.0 installed instead of 11.1 beta or 11.0 as a live-cd?

Otherwise open a terminal and type "man sax2" then try it, perhaps as "sax2 -r" as root (su) and see if it finds your mouse. I think you will have to restart X (Ctl+Alt+Back) thereafter. Luck

I don't know why i got beta I'll download that now.

How would i get to the terminal with a keyboard shortcut.
Like in windows you could press win + R then type in cmd
But how would you in SUSE.

Welcome to the forum's please give us more detail's about your system

Thanks.

Pentium D 1.73 GHz
2 GB - RAM
Vista Home Premium 32-Bit
130 GB - Hard Drive



For the Virtual Machine

512 MB - RAM
3 GB - Just wanted to test it out so i didn't put much Hard Drive space on it.

[thorkelljarl]

I don't know if there is a direct keyboard shortcut. You can find it when you open K Menu (Alt+F1) and see Favorits on the left. Its on the bottom of the list. If you are using a live-cd you may be root, though more probably you are a user. To get root priveleges type "su", enter, then try "root", enter, as a password. Entering your password produces no characters on the screen. The name script will turn red if you have root priveleges.
I used "sax2" at one time to reinstall a mouse, but can't find the note I made. There may have been a step between sax and restarting X. I found out how online, but can't find out again. You try.

What does scrarfuss say to this? Better ideas, how to?

[crazyman07]

I don't know if there is a direct keyboard shortcut. You can find it when you open K Menu (Alt+F1) and see Favorits on the left. Its on the bottom of the list. If you are using a live-cd you may be root, though more probably you are a user. To get root priveleges type "su", enter, then try "root", enter, as a password. Entering your password produces no characters on the screen. The name script will turn red if you have root priveleges.
I used "sax2" at one time to reinstall a mouse, but can't find the note I made. There may have been a step between sax and restarting X. I found out how online, but can't find out again. You try.

What does scrarfuss say to this? Better ideas, how to?

Well I looked into it and it is a Live-CD. I don't know if that changes much, what i think a Live-CD is, is SUSE running on a CD. What I'm doing now is mounting the ISO i got from SUSE site and just running of a mounted ISO. I don't think that makes a difference.

Thanks for that shortcut (Alt+F1) with that shortcut i went into control center, then i used my keyboard and i found Keyboard Shortcuts. I scrolled down and found Run a Terminal, I pressed enter and assigned a shortcut. Using that shortcut i ran terminal.

Then in terminal i tried what you said earlier.
So i typed in "man sax2 -r" and it just gave me a list of stuff
Then i typed in "su root"
And like you said it turned Red: "linux:/home/linux #"
Then i typed in "sax2"
It took bout 10 sec. But a window opened up called "SaX2: X11 Configuration"
I used my keyboard and i went to mouse, Change.
Then a window opened up with two coloums Left side had a list of brands the other side would fill up if a brand was selected.
I selected Virtual Box and vboxmouse.
I pressed ok, then a windows opened up saying test or save. i first did test but nothing happened at the end a black window with an x was there so i shutdown virtual box and opened it up again. and this time i pressed save. and i restarted virtual box but nothing changed.

I think i'm going to download SUSE 11.0 instead, to much problems with it, and I'm really new to the Linux world

[thorkelljarl]

Yes

"man sax2" is the manual page for the command. It is information not action.

It sounds like you were succeeding with "sax2 -r" but the last step I remember was to restart X with ctr+alt+backspace

It might well be that an openSUSE 11.0 livc-cd or DVD will have the same problem with your mouse. You might try to make it work now. The "test" is for screen resolution, but you have no X-window functioning then functioning to test.

Let us know if it works.

[crazyman07]

Yes

"man sax2" is the manual page for the command. It is information not action.

It sounds like you were succeeding with "sax2 -r" but the last step I remember was to restart X with ctr+alt+backspace

It might well be that an openSUSE 11.0 livc-cd or DVD will have the same problem with your mouse. You might try to make it work now. The "test" is for screen resolution, but you have no X-window functioning then functioning to test.

Let us know if it works.

So I downloaded openSUSE 11.0 the DVD version with GNOME and KDE.
But i installed GNOME.
And now my mouse works.
So maybe it was just the beta version.

Thanks for your help, thorkelljarl