Re: No Mouse In GNOME

"Bob Palank" <srfpala@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

SUSE 10.1 running on GNOME on a Compaq 1830. Mouse isn't working.

Touchpad works as expected.

I'm not familiar with Suse or you compaq, but maybe I can help anyway.

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

At least on my old Slackware 9.1 system /dev/input/mice is for usb
devices. /dev/psaux should be used for a ps/2 mouse.

This is what my xorg.conf looks like for two mouse devices:

-8<----------------------------------------
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "Auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "n52_mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0"
Option "Buttons" "7"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
EndSection

....

Section "ServerLayout"

# The Identifier line must be present
Identifier "Simple Layout"
Screen "Screen 1"

# Each InputDevice line specifies an InputDevice section name and
# optionally some options to specify the way the device is to be
# used. Those options include "CorePointer", "CoreKeyboard" and
# "SendCoreEvents".

InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "n52_mouse" "SendCoreEvents" # "AllwaysCore"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"

EndSection
-8<----------------------------------------

On my system /dev/mouse is a symbolic link to /dev/psaux. You should also
make sure that you have a kernel with support for a PS/2 mouse or the
right module loaded.

Q1. Hardware Question - If the touchpad is active then is the 6 Pin PS/2
port logically disconnected ?

This probably depends on your hardware.

Q2. Without writing code, is there a way to determine if the kernel is
responding to mouse events ?

cat /dev/whatever | xxd

If you move your mouse you should see characters coming in the terminal.
Abort the test with ctrl-c.

Q3. Without writing code, is there a way to determine if X11 is
responding to mouse events ?

Watch the mouse cursor :-)

Q4. Without writing code, is there a way to determine if GNOME is
responding to mouse events ?
A4. Obviously I don't see the cursor, but .....

If you don't see the cursor try a different window manager or run without
any window manager at all by startin X with "X". Close X with
ctrl-alt-backspace.

// Under Windows, both the touchpad and the mouse were both active ..

If so you probably have the answer for Q1.

Q5. startx must run a script since this command must launch X11 and
then it seems to launch GNOME.
Is this true ?

more /usr/X11R6/bin/startx
#!/bin/sh
....
userclientrc=$HOME/.xinitrc
userserverrc=$HOME/.xserverrc
sysclientrc=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc
sysserverrc=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc
....

regards Henrik
--
The address in the header is only to prevent spam. My real address is:
hc8(at)uthyres.com Examples of addresses which go to spammers:
root@xxxxxxxxxxxxx root@localhost

.

Relevant Pages