Logitech 3 button PS/2 mouse

[protagonist]

I am new to Linux, and I just installed Red Hat Linux 7.1, and durring the installation it said that it could not detect my mouse. So I used the text version of the installation program. In the text installation I said it was a Logitech 3 button bus mouse. Now that installation is completed and I am in the GNOME I still can't move my mouse. There has to be a way to fix this.

[Helical Cynic]

As root, edit /etc/XF86Config or /etc/X11/XF86Config and find a line that says Device="/dev/fooblah" under the section about Identifier="Mouse1" or something like that. Change that Device line to read Device="/dev/psaux" (if it's a PS/2 mouse)

Save it, and try starting X again (startx).

If you can't get to the prompt...check other posts.

<edit>Can't remember what I read 20 seconds ago...PS/2 mouse means PS/2 mouse, even at the end of a long day at work...</edit>

[ 24 July 2001: Message edited by: BTBGuy ]