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    Exclamation Having Mouse Troubles, Need Help!

    I run as an alternate box Linux Mandrake 7.1 (or is it 7.2?), and with one slight error, I accidently made it to where the mouse no longer operates... normally I wouldn't mind, but since it is Linux, it makes moving around a pain in the arse...you know the situation, and I would really apreciate the help... I will even give you positive antiponts, just because I am a nice person....I feel too much like a telemarketer sometimes...

    (--Also, can anyone tell me where I can find a C compiler for Linux?--)
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    Hey psychosquee,

    I've never configured the mouse after an install but for the mouse, give a try to http://nodevice.com/sections/ManIndex/man0879.html. That might help.

    As for the C compiler, that's included generally with most *nix installations. Go to a prompt and do a gcc. gcc is the compiler often used. You can get more info at: http://gcc.gnu.org/

    Hope this helps.
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    sorry, I can't help you with your mouse problems but I do believe there are C Compilers installed with most distributions of Linux when you install it.. so in response, on your computer or on your linux CD
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    Damnit... MsMittens reply wasn't there when I clicked post... now don't I look silly....
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    I am having major mouse problems too. I had to romove the whole bottom of it just to get it to work properly...
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    Awwww, someone gave me negative antipoints for my post coz I said the same thing as MsMittens.. thats mean.. MsMittens post wasn't there when I pressed post reply... Oh well, guess I will have to type faster in the future......
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    now you have some positives
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    Re: mouse problems

    No sweat

    I am assuming that this is a PS/2 scrollwheel mouse, if for no other reason than that sems to be what most people use. If you are using something different please let me know.

    Your mouse config is part of your XF86Config, so we need to
    cd into /etc/X11 and make some changes. I use vi, but use whatever editor you like best. You will need to be root or su'd to root privi's to do this.

    example:

    cd /etc/X11; vi XF86Config

    Your mouse settings are going to be about 1/3rd of the way down, unless you used YAST2 (Suse Linux) to create XF86Config.
    You will see something like:

    # Begin Input Device Mouse

    At this point edit the mouse section to look like this.

    # Begin Input Device Mouse

    Identifier "Mouse1"
    Driver "mouse"
    Option "Protocol" "imps/2"
    Option "ButtonNumber" "5"
    Option "InputFashion" "Mouse"
    Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"

    # End Input Device Mouse


    Now just start/restart your X server and you should have a working scroll mouse in any application that was written to use one.

    Hope this helped
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