Tricky mouse problem

[Jon Reynolds]

I got this information and relayed it pretty close to how it is written. You 
can find it here: 

www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/x194.html

Credit goes to this guy and his excellent mini-howto.

Jon

On Thursday 23 August 2001 10:51 pm, you wrote:
> Joel, I had to setup my USB roll ball mouse on slackware but I can help you
> out with what I did. so here goes:
>
> 1. kernel needs to have usb support and do not turn on HIDBP Mouse Support.
>
> 2.youll need to make a directory called input in dev "mkdir /dev/input" (if
> not already a directory)
>
> 3. you have to make a node in /dev/input/     "mknod /dev/input/mice 13 63"
>
> If you cat /dev/input/mice you should see some things happening on your
> screen.
>
> 4. edit the XF86Config file you probably have XFree86 4.0 with mandrake 8
> so you will need to add an InputDevice section that looks like so:
>
> Section	"InputDevice"
> 	Identifier	"USB Mice"
> 	Driver	"mouse"
> 	Option	"Protocol"	"IMPS/2"
> 	Option	"Device"	"/dev/input/mice"
> 	Option	"ZAxisMapping"	"4 5"
> 	Option	"Buttons"	"5"
> EndSection
>
> Finally you need to add an entry to each applicable ServerLayout Section.
> replace the line with the "CorePointer" entry with the following
>
> InputDevice	"USB Mice" "SendCoreEvents"
>
> and that should work?
>
> Jon