[TriLUG] help with usb mouse

Donald Ball balld at webslingerZ.com
Thu Dec 13 19:21:33 EST 2001


On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Tanner Lovelace wrote:

> Donald Ball wrote:
>
> > and obviously there is some sort of signal being receieved by the computer
> > from the mouse as moving the mouse does move the pointer, at least when i
> > use the IMPS/2 protocol (or some other random protocols i've found
> > mentioned in peoples' XF86Config's that aren't documented in the mouse
> > notes for XFree86-4.1.0 - great) - it just doesn't move the pointer in the
> > way that i expect.
>
> I don't think IMPS/2 is the correct protocol.  IMPS/2 is the
> IntelliMouse PS/2 (the round mini-din connecter) protocol and
> I would think a USB mouse would be different.
>
> Hmmm... however, looking at
>
> http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/x194.html
>
> tells a different story.  It does say to use IMPS/2.  Oh well.
> Have you tried looking there?

sure, tried all the recommendations there, no luck.

- donald




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