[SLE] USB Mouse in SuSE 9

From: Chris Purcell (suse_at_cjp.us)
Date: 11/25/03

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    I'm having a problem getting any mouse to work on my SuSE 9 box
    (desktop). Everything worked fine after the installation, but after a
    reboot it stopped working. I ran 'sax2 -a' to autodetect it, and it did
    and
    started working again, minus the wheel functionality. As a test, I
    installed a different wheel mouse to see if I could get the wheel to
    work. I couldn't get the new mouse to work at all so I went back to
    the old one. The original mouse doesn't work at all anymore, no matter
    what I do.

    The mouse I'm trying to get back to its original settings is a M$
    Optical Wheel Mouse (USB). I tried copying the XFree86-suse9 file to
    XFree86, but it doesn't do anything.

    lsusb
    Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
    Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
    Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
    Bus 002 Device 003: ID 045e:0040 Microsoft Corp. Wheel Mouse Optical Bus
    001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

    dmesg | grep -i mouse
    mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
    input: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft Wheel Mouse OpticalŪ] on
    usb2:2.0
    mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
    input: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft Wheel Mouse OpticalŪ] on
    usb2:3.0

    XFree86-suse9 (mice section)

    Section "InputDevice"
      Driver "mouse"
      Identifier "Mouse[1]"
      Option "ButtonNumber" "2"
      Option "Buttons" "5"
      Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
      Option "Name" "Autodetection"
      Option "Protocol" "IntelliMouse"
      Option "Vendor" "Sysp"
      Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    EndSection

    XFree86.saxsave (mice section)

    Section "InputDevice"
      Driver "mouse"
      Identifier "Mouse[1]"
      Option "Buttons" "5"
      Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
      Option "Name" "Autodetection"
      Option "Protocol" "imps/2"
      Option "Vendor" "Sysp"
      Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    EndSection

    Either of those XFree86 files work perfectly on other SuSE 9 systems
    with those mice installed (including the system I'm writing this from).
     It used to work on this system, but I don't know what happened.

    I have hotplug running, and it does beep when I plug the mouse in while
    the system is on.

    Any help is greatly appreciated,
    Chris 

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