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gudentach12
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 Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 2:16 am Post subject: USB Mouse on Laptop, Help!!! |
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Hi i have a Targa Notebook with a normal two button touchpad.
I hate the touchpad, so i decided to get a usb mouse. I m still a noob in linux so i dont know how to get the usb mouse to work.
Please somebody tell me how to setup the mouse.
Thank you, gudentach. |
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CodeHacker84
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| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 4:15 am Post subject: |
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Ok, I have a Toshiba Satellite 5005-S504 (yes the one with the pending lawsuit), and I also use a nice little USB wheel mouse. The trick for me was to alter a file called XF86Config. It's in the /etc/X11 directory.
Here's a little excerpt of the pertinent lines from my /etc/X11/XF86Config file:
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Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Emulate3Buttons"
Option "ChordMiddle"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
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Also, make sure that you have USB HID support compiled into your kernel.
If you only have the hid module type "modprobe hid" as the root user.
If you need more info post again.
Now, all I know is that this works for me. It might not work for you, but it's worth a shot because it won't hurt anything.
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Sven Vermeulen
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| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 7:57 am Post subject: |
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In your kernelconfiguration, make sure you have
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CONFIG_USB=y
CONFIG_USB_UHCI_ALT=y
CONFIG_USB_HID=y
CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT=y
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amasidlover
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| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 9:54 am Post subject: |
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A useful trick is to leave your original mouse (touchpad) in the XF86Config and add the USB mouse as say Mouse2, then add the following line | Code: | | InputDevice "Mouse2" "SendCoreEvents" |
to your server layout section (without removing the corepointer "mouse1" line). This means that both mice will still work. And if you emerge hotplug then when you plug your usbmouse in you can use that and when you don't you can still use the touchpad. |
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eeknay
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| Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2003 11:33 am Post subject: |
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and what do you say as the driver for mouse2 and which device do you use for that?
right now i'm trying to get both to work
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