Re: How to update hardware detection and configuration?

On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:58:37 +0100, Markus Elfring staggered into the
Black Sun and said:

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installed the Nvidia graphics driver software for the openSUSE 10.2 on
my computer. My updated system worked for a while. I installed those
"recommended" updates.

It's always a crapshoot with SuSE/Redhat whether "recommended updates"
will work properly or not. SuSE has had too many strange bugs since
6.1, and they're continuing the tradition. Best fix? Debian, Gentoo,
or Slack.

I shutdown the corresponding Gnome session. When I tried to log in
again a bit later, I noticed that the mouse pointer did not move.
[The mouse's hardware is OK, it works under 'DozeXP.] My mouse MX-600
previously worked with the setting "MX310".

Wait, what? MX310 is not a valid protocol or Xorg setting. Is the
config stanza for your mouse in xorg.conf similar to the text below?

Driver "mouse"
Identifier "Mouse[1]"
Option "Buttons" "7"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 6 7"

....this should work for both PS/2 and USB mice that use the EXPS
protocol, and probably the IMPS protocol as well. Is this mouse PS/2 or
USB? If PS/2, is PS/2 support built as a module or compiled in?
"lsmod | grep psmouse" will show results if ps/2 support is modular. To
use advanced protocols like EXPS with PS/2 mice, you may have to load
the module with "proto=exps" or boot with "psmouse.proto=exps". If
USB, has usbhid been modprobed? /dev/input/mice reports events that
come from all mice, so if you have more than 1 mouse, it might be better
to specify /dev/input/mouse0 and /dev/input/mouse1 in xorg.conf.

How are the chances to reactivate the mouse pointer movement in my
Linux installation?

Do a "grep -i mouse /var/log/Xorg.0.log" and post any results from that
that seem weird. See if there's anything in dmesg that relates to the
mouse, and if there is, post it.

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