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System won't recognize mouse.

Post by Chang Li » Tue, 21 Sep 1999 04:00:00



My mouse won't be recognized either in text or graphics mode. I have both
SuSE6.2 & RH6.0 installed, plus Win98. In win98 mouse works ok, and mouse
works ok with linux until last night. What I did was to recomple SuSE
kernel in order to support my sound card, after reboot I found mouse
didn't work. I have tried many times without success. Funny thing is,
when I switched to RH6.0, mouse didn't work either. I don't think I have
done anything to RH.

Does anybody have idea what could be the problem? Any input is
appreciated.

 
 
 
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System won't recognize mouse.

Post by John G. Sandel » Tue, 21 Sep 1999 04:00:00



> My mouse won't be recognized either in text or graphics mode. I have both
> SuSE6.2 & RH6.0 installed, plus Win98. In win98 mouse works ok, and mouse
> works ok with linux until last night. What I did was to recomple SuSE
> kernel in order to support my sound card, after reboot I found mouse
> didn't work. I have tried many times without success. Funny thing is,
> when I switched to RH6.0, mouse didn't work either. I don't think I have
> done anything to RH.

> Does anybody have idea what could be the problem? Any input is
> appreciated.

Is it a serial mouse or PS/2? Did you by an chance turn it off in the
process of configuring your new kernel? If so, run make config again. If
you have a PS/2 mouse, you need to say Y to mouse support (not serial
mice). If you have a serial mouse say N to mouse support (not serial
mice). Recompile, rerun /sbin/lilo (if you're using LILO).

Hope this helps. I moved a hard drive from an old computer (serialmouse)
to a new one (PS/2 mouse) and forgot about the mouse difference,
couldn't use the mouse. Took me a while to realize what was going on...

John Sandell

 
 
 
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System won't recognize mouse.

Post by Chang Li » Wed, 22 Sep 1999 04:00:00


Thanks for your post. I have tried both, but neither works. What confused
me the most is, why RH is also affected? Doing anything(just recompile
kernel and run lilo) in SuSE shouldn't affect the other distribution,
right?

Any idea?



> > My mouse won't be recognized either in text or graphics mode. I have both
> > SuSE6.2 & RH6.0 installed, plus Win98. In win98 mouse works ok, and mouse
> > works ok with linux until last night. What I did was to recomple SuSE
> > kernel in order to support my sound card, after reboot I found mouse
> > didn't work. I have tried many times without success. Funny thing is,
> > when I switched to RH6.0, mouse didn't work either. I don't think I have
> > done anything to RH.

> > Does anybody have idea what could be the problem? Any input is
> > appreciated.

> Is it a serial mouse or PS/2? Did you by an chance turn it off in the
> process of configuring your new kernel? If so, run make config again. If
> you have a PS/2 mouse, you need to say Y to mouse support (not serial
> mice). If you have a serial mouse say N to mouse support (not serial
> mice). Recompile, rerun /sbin/lilo (if you're using LILO).

> Hope this helps. I moved a hard drive from an old computer (serialmouse)
> to a new one (PS/2 mouse) and forgot about the mouse difference,
> couldn't use the mouse. Took me a while to realize what was going on...

> John Sandell

 
 
 
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System won't recognize mouse.

Post by Jayan » Thu, 23 Sep 1999 04:00:00


plug and pray..?
Try resetting your pnp configuration info in the bios....

in win98, does the mouse still work, or is that it used to, earlier?
Check if the mouse is plugged in properly.. maybe it came loose when
you reached over to pick that beer can, while the make bzImage was
going on.. :-)

Jayan


> Thanks for your post. I have tried both, but neither works. What confused
> me the most is, why RH is also affected? Doing anything(just recompile
> kernel and run lilo) in SuSE shouldn't affect the other distribution,
> right?

> Any idea?



> > > My mouse won't be recognized either in text or graphics mode. I have both
> > > SuSE6.2 & RH6.0 installed, plus Win98. In win98 mouse works ok, and mouse
> > > works ok with linux until last night. What I did was to recomple SuSE
> > > kernel in order to support my sound card, after reboot I found mouse
> > > didn't work. I have tried many times without success. Funny thing is,
> > > when I switched to RH6.0, mouse didn't work either. I don't think I have
> > > done anything to RH.

> > > Does anybody have idea what could be the problem? Any input is
> > > appreciated.

> > Is it a serial mouse or PS/2? Did you by an chance turn it off in the
> > process of configuring your new kernel? If so, run make config again. If
> > you have a PS/2 mouse, you need to say Y to mouse support (not serial
> > mice). If you have a serial mouse say N to mouse support (not serial
> > mice). Recompile, rerun /sbin/lilo (if you're using LILO).

> > Hope this helps. I moved a hard drive from an old computer (serialmouse)
> > to a new one (PS/2 mouse) and forgot about the mouse difference,
> > couldn't use the mouse. Took me a while to realize what was going on...

> > John Sandell

 
 
 
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