[ale] MS 5Button USB Mouse with IntelliEye

[Nathan J. Underwood]

I was actually using RedHat9 before, but had an urge for something different,
and, well, it's Gentoo now.  Would you mind posting the mouse section of your
XF86Config?  

thx

Quoting Josh Freeman <josh at catea.org>:

> Nathan,
> 	I'm running a Microsoft IntelliEye Mouse, on RedHat 9 with KDE. Mine is
> set up with /dev/mouse being a symlink to /dev/input/mice You may want
> to give that a try.
> 
> jsoh
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 14:58, Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
> > Everyone,
> > 
> >      I apologize for bringing this back up again, but for whatever reason,
> I
> > simply can't get this thing to work.  I've finally got the box up and
> running,
> > got X installed on it, and then got KDE installed.  This problem popped up
> right
> > after the installation of X, but I was just dying to see KDE 3.x on this
> box. 
> > Anyways, it's up, it's running, and it's fast, but my mouse still doesn't
> work
> > :-((  I followed the instructions on the Gentoo page about setting up a
> USB
> > mouse, and when I unplug / plug in my mouse, I get a syslog entry stating
> that
> > it's there, but I don't have /dev/input anywhere, much less
> /dev/input/mouse. 
> > I'm guessing that I missed something in the kernel setup, but can't for the
> life
> > of me find it.  Has anyone got one of these things working?  Does everyone
> (but
> > me) see the flaw in my (admittedly, somewhat warped) logic?  
> -- 
> Josh Freeman
> Technical Manager
> Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access
> 
> 


-- 
Nathan J. Underwood
nathan at cybertechcafe.net
http://www.cybertechcafe.net
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