[Gllug] Newbie problem: Optical USB mouse.
Michael Gabriel
mike at globe.net.nz
Mon Oct 14 11:37:05 UTC 2002
Thanks Thom,
That worked a treat!!! It needs a little tweaking so that the
scrowerball works but I think that will be a matter changing
"ZAxisMapping". Fingers cross.
Many thanks
Michael.
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 12:16, Thom May wrote:
> * Michael Gabriel (mike at globe.net.nz) wrote :
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm have just bought a USB optical mouse and I can't seem to make it
> > work.I can see the device in USB Viewer but that's as far as I get. I am
> > new to Linux/Debian so it might just be a simple problem.
> >
> > I've read that when you cat /dev/input/mice and move the mouse, one
> > should see characters appearing but in my case nothing happens.
> >
> > Any help would be much appreciated.
> Personally I find hotplug rocks for this sort of thing.
> apt-get install hotplug, plug your mouse in, watch it work (hopefully).
> -Thom
>
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