Configuring a mouse w/out a mouse

[sajchurchey]

I installed SuSE 8.0 and I configured my mouse incorrectly and it doesn't detect it at all. What should I try to do to configure this mouse. For some reason, SuSE won't run YaST or Sax from the Run command prompt.

[kart38]

Assuming your booting into Suse just fine, and running KDE, I'll take a stab at this.

Alt+F1 brings up the "Kmenu". Use the arrow keys to go down to 'System->Configuration->SaX2' Hit enter then type in your root password.

You'll then see the SaX2 screen. Press the 'Tab' key until you see a box around one of the four "components" listed. Use the arrows to get to the mouse (Input-Devices->Mouse). Press enter when "Mouse" is highlighted and you'll see the screen to configure it. Use the "Tab" and arrow keys to navigate. When your done Alt+i will "finalize" it.

That should work.

When I booted Suse 8.1 for the first time I had no visible cursor, so I went through pretty much the same thing.

Jason

[Penrich]

To get Yast to run from command line, you need to type yast2 as root, IIRC. If you can get to the command line though, you can also just edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config file manually to reflect your correct mouse, or run xconfigurator.

[sajchurchey]

Editing the config file might be my best bet, but I don't know what I should enter for my mouse. I have a 3-button optical mouse w/ wheel. What should I enter in the config file to configure this correctly.

Thanks for the Alt+F1 trick, that might come in handy :-)

[Penrich]

Mainly will depend on whether USB or PS/2. Check out some of the posts in this search (http://www.linuxnewbie.org/forum/search.php?s=&action=showresults&searchid=310087&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending) for some example set-ups.

[JohnT]

For PS2

Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "ZAxisMapping""4 5"

[sajchurchey]

while I'm at it, is there anyway to configure the mouse wheel?

[Penrich]

Hey JohnT - where do you get those lines in your sig from? Seems like you have a new one every day! :D

[Penrich]

Originally posted by sajchurchey
while I'm at it, is there anyway to configure the mouse wheel?
The wheel makes it a "5 button mouse" - click the wheel, scroll forward and scroll back. The config JohnT put up should take care of that! There is also a NHF for seven buttons (the MS Intellimouse explorer!) (http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/Hardware/Configuring_the_Intellimouse_Explorer_in_XFree86.h tml)

[sajchurchey]

Actually it's two buttons, but the wheel counts as a clickable third, if that changes anything. Knowing that, I only count 4-buttons. But if I configure it as a 4-button or 5 button mouse, the wheel will enable scrolling?

[Penrich]

[list=1]
Left button
Right button
Click Wheel
Scroll Wheel clockwise
Scroll Wheel counter-clockwise
[/list=1]
The explorer adds the two side buttons, making 7.
EDIT - the Zaxis bit in the config should take care of the scrolling :)

[sajchurchey]

Looks like johnT's quotes come from Jack Candy.