[TriLUG] Install different mouse

Jeremy Portzer jeremyp at pobox.com
Thu Jun 24 16:43:17 EDT 2004


On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 16:25, Byarlay, Wayne A. wrote:
> I have RH 9 on a computer which was set up with an unknown kind of mouse
> attached to it. Now it's in production,hooked up to a KVM switch, with a
> different mouse. Now, if I go to "startx" and get a GUI, the mouse just
> jumps around and clicks stuff randomly, and basically doesn't work!
> 
> Any suggestions? Perhaps I could remove the mouse drivers from the
> system, forcing the OS to re-recognize the mouse and install drivers for
> it?

Go to a text console (ctrl-alt-F1), log in, and run
'redhat-config-mouse'.

HTH, HAND

Jeremy

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