mouse not working ....

i have just installed SuSe 9.1 Personal Edition from August 2004 DIGIT DVD....

its loading fine ...... but the mouse refuses to work .. PLZ HELP

doesnt Linux have anything like Control Panel ......

is SuSe as good as Red Hat , Mandrake ....

i had learnt Linux (Power User) around 7 monts back .... basic shell commands
but SuSe is all graphical and doesnt seem like LINUX .....

how do i install software and the mouse ....

plz help .....

iinfi said:
its loading fine ...... but the mouse refuses to work .. PLZ HELP

Does # mouseconfig work ?

Or else use YaST like this:
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iinfi said:
doesnt Linux have anything like Control Panel ......

SuSE has YaST
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iinfi said:
how do i install software and the mouse ....

YaST

N

1) You didn't enable the PS/2 or USB feature that your mouse uses in your kernel config... or

2) You enabled it as a module, but it didn't load because you didn't have module-init-tools installed.
hope this will help

thanks

thanks both of u for ur help

my mouse is now working n i m enjoying linux ....

I recently installed kubuntu 5.10 on my system n I m newbie to Linux...I m facing a prob with my mouse I have a optical mouse connected to the PS/2 port but my mouse is not workin in Linux...Even its light is off....When plug in my ball mouse to the same port it works fine...how can I use my optical mouse in Linux?

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Does the optical mouse work in windows? Cos it seems the mouse isn't working otherwise it's light should come on even if it isn't detected by linux.

The optical mouse is working fine in Windows XP...

before manual intervention,make sure you have apt-get installed these packages and try..

Code:

root@sputnik:~# apt-get install mdetect laptop-detect read-edid

if it fails,
what make is ur optical mouse..i've a logitech one it was detected easily.you should edit ur /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change the lines for mouse as below and post the results.(use any editors like gedit,kate,kwrite to open the file xorg.conf)

Code:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "CorePointer"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
        Option          "Protocol"              "ExplorerPS/2"
        Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
EndSection

In the line :
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" ,if it is not working change to as below:

Code:

Option          "Protocol"              "ImPS/2"

@neerajvohra

Can u elaborate a bit more coz I'm new to Linux n don't know wat u r tellin me..

@ prakash kerala

I have a HCL PC n so the mouse too is frm HCL...

@ Prakash kerala
Recently I switched over to FC4 and the same prob persists....The prob cannot b wid mouse as it is working fine wid Windows XP....I tried the method u told bt it didn't help either....can u suggest some other solution..

TRY as root :

Code:

systemconfig-mouse

C

Serial mice dont work in ubntu & kubuntu...i had to edit Xorg conf file manually to make it work...it works like a charm now

@coolblue

I already wrote that I have a PS/2 mouse...that too optical one...

bizzare_blue said:
I recently installed kubuntu 5.10 on my system n I m newbie to Linux...I m facing a prob with my mouse I have a optical mouse connected to the PS/2 port but my mouse is not workin in Linux...Even its light is off....When plug in my ball mouse to the same port it works fine...how can I use my optical mouse in Linux?