Lost USB mouse after installing Gnome

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, HarryG wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 November 2005 9:12 am, Net Llama! wrote:
> > On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, HarryG wrote:
> > > I wanted to add gnome to my Mepis installation, but after I did, I lost
> > > my usb mouse under KDE and Gnome.  In the Kinfo center, it sees my
> > > reciever, but I can't get any thing to work.  (I HATE touchpads!).
> > >
> > > Any idea what Gnome may have done?  I installed via Synaptic, and my
> > > sources are all testing.
> >
> > I'll bet that your xorg.conf got changed.  mouse support comes from your X
> > configuration.
>
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
>   Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
>   Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
>   InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
>  #InputDevice "PS/2 Mouse" "CorePointer"
>   InputDevice "USB Mouse" "CorePointer"
>  #InputDevice "Touchpad" "CorePointer"
>  #InputDevice "Serial Mouse" "CorePointer"
> EndSection
>
>
> and
>
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>   Identifier "PS/2 Mouse"
>   Driver "mouse"
>   Option "Protocol" "auto"
>   Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
>   Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false"
>   Option "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
>   Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>   Option "Buttons" "5"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>   Identifier "USB Mouse"
>   Driver "mouse"
>   Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
>   Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
>   Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>   Option "Buttons" "5"
> EndSection
>
> Don't have the PS/2 mouse, but included it just in case.

Try changing the protocol to IMPS/2

>
> >From my humble knowledge, I can't see what it may be.  My USB ports seem to be
> working, as they see my printer and external DVD no problem.

what does lsusb show you?
What is in your X log?
Which X driver are you using?

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