mouse and keyboard problems under mandrake 9.1

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Well, here it is, my first post under Linux!! So i've installed Linux on my desknote dual-booting with XP. After some research, I got my external USB mouse to work kind of right. It's an intellimouse explorer, and the wheel doesn't work properly - which is to say, at all! Here are the appropriate sections of my XF86Config-4 file:


Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons"
Option "Emulate3Timeout"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse2"
Driver "mouse"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "off"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "ZAxis" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "layout1"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Mouse2" "AlwaysCore"
Screen "screen1"
EndSection

now, my keyboard kind of works right. (I'm typing, aren't I? ) However, none of the keyboard shortcuts work. CTRL-TAB, ALT-TAB, etc.

here's that portion of my Config file:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "Keyboard"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbCompat" ""
Option "XkbOptions" ""
EndSection

I'm thinking that i have the wrong kbModel, as this is a desknote, and doesn't have 105 keys.

Any ideas? Your help is much appreciated!

Viva Linux!!!

[jkrohn]

For your mouse problem, try this

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse2"
Driver "mouse"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "off"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

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Thanks jk. that fixed the mousewheel problem! do you know of where there's a good source on the XF86Config-4 file? All the options, and additions and things? For instance, is there somewhere i can map the functions of these buttons?

Thanks again for your help!

[jkrohn]

Are you looking to map the extra buttons on your mouse?
Then check out imwheel
http://jcatki.no-ip.org/imwheel/

If you are looking to make the extra buttons on your keybaord work check out lineak
http://lineak.sourceforge.net/

Jkrohn