[plug] usb mouse, help needed!

[John Knight]

Cheers mate! :)

>
>On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, John Knight wrote:
>
> > hey fellers!
> >
> > i had a nifty mouse, but it's left button decided to give up the ghost, 
>so i
> > had to get a quick replacement, a shinola microsoft usb mouse wiht 2 
>buttons
> > and a trackball. i had a ps2 mouse before, can anyone who has a similar
> > mouse please email me their XF86Config-4 file?
>
>Build kernel with support for the following modules and load them.
># All 3 for a silly mouse :)
>usb-uhci
>usbmouse
>mousedev
>
>(Any current distro witha 2.4 kernel should already have them).
>
>Then add :
>none  /proc/bus/usb  usbdevfs  defaults  0  0
>to /etc/fstab and "mount /proc/bus/usb", This is optional BUT nice.
>
>Tnen make sure /de/input/mice existsa and is coreect (again a current 
>distro
>should have done this).
>
>Than add:
>Section "InputDevice"
>   Identifier  "5 Button MS Trackball"
>   Driver    "mouse"
>   Option    "SendCoreEvents"  "true"
>   Option    "Device"    "/dev/input/mice"
>   Option    "Protocol"    "ImPS/2"
>   Option    "ZAxisMapping"    "4 5"
>EndSection
>
>To /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.  Obviously this is for a dirreect mouse to you 
>BUT
>it should give you enought to work with.
>
>
>Yours Tony
>
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