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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: Master of Reality on 24 September 2002, 04:11
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is there anyway to use a USB mouse in slackware? There is now option to choose USB when running Xf86config. What do i out in /etc/X11/XF86Config to setup a USB mouse?
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I just installed slackware 8.1 on my old 200 mhz monster and I have the exact same question. I know its possible because I have a usb mouse on my mandrake box, but how do you do it in slack?
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Why don't you just edit the XF86Config-4 and set the mouse protocol to "usb"?
Reference:
http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/mouse.html (http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/mouse.html)
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"usb" is an unkown protocol
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"ImPS/2" might well be the known protocol you need. google knows...
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thats what i thought and tried at first.
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did you search the LQ forums? i seem to remember seeing quite a lot of mouse related XFree86 answers in there...
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i plan to do that later. I gotta go to school.
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no i dont need anythign like that.
I just need to find out how to setup XF86Config properly. I have tried two different setups that LQ recommended to other users with the same problem but they didnt work. I will try some more tomorrow.
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Get a usb->ps2 adapter. Problem solved.
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but i would have to reach all the way down into the box beside my computer to pull it out :(
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m0r = funny
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slackware doesnt like USB.
redhat doesnt like it as PS/2.
i htink i will have to decide whether to use red hat or slackware on my main 'puter or put on the USB > PS/2 adapter everytime i boot into slacwkare.
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:D too much like hard work, eh MoR. much easier to set up XF86Config to handle USB mice...
btw, if you get fed up of trying, i have one of those USB>PS/2 adaptors spare RIGHT HERE ;)
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quote:
Originally posted by The Master of Reality / Bob:
slackware doesnt like USB.
redhat doesnt like it as PS/2.
i htink i will have to decide whether to use red hat or slackware on my main 'puter or put on the USB > PS/2 adapter everytime i boot into slacwkare.
Can't you use the same Mouse section from the XF86Config for both RedHat and Slackware? Are you running XFree v4.x on Slackware?
Also realize that if you use the "/dev/mouse" as your device you'll need to check and make sure "/dev/mouse" is a symbolic link to the proper device name. "ls -l /dev/mouse" should show that it is a symbolic link to a real device, or use the "real" device name in your XF86Config rather than "/dev/mouse".
[ September 25, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]
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i am not running Xfree86 4 in Slackware (i'm pretty sure i'm not.... or i edited the wrong file). In slacwkare it is /dev/mice which is a sympolic link to input/Mouse0.
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I am running XFree86 4.2.0 but its config file is /etc/X11/XF86Config. It is setup differently from RedHats XF86Config-4 file and didnt work when i to copied it (that was actually the first thing i tried)
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It likely didn't work because at minimum the mouse device names are not the same between RedHat and Slackware. Another thing that would be different are font paths (and any other paths for that matter). But the config directives themselves should work as long as the paths are corrected.
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i'm startin to think it is something more serious in Slackware other than just a misconfigured XF86Config. I tried a couple different Mice and different types of mice and all types of configurations. And let mouseconfig and Xftconfig set up stuff. But GDM and X will not work no matter what. I think since i have Slackware on another computer i might wanna install Debian or BeOS (Dano of course) on it instead.
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list your config file out, also, does slackware even reconize the fact that usb is on your computer, it did with redhat, and my usb-2.0 controller, and my ochi and uchi/*don't know if i got that acroynym right*/ controllers
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it should redhat recognizes it. But even if it didnt i also tried it with PS/2.
I tried using mouseconfige and selecint USB. Then PS/2. I tried two different mice.