no response to mouse (memorex rf7000) clicks under kde/gnome

[hanneshorn]

as the subject line says..

I've been searching forums and googling on this extensively, but no luck.

The mouse pointer itself is moving as I move the mouse. There's also visual feedback when the mouse pointer hovers above a button, etc. But no response to clicks.

When I'm booting to a LiveCD, the mouse buttons are active (can hilite, etc), so I guess it's just a set-up problem.

I don't have the machine fully up yet (no browser), so typing everything 'emerge info' spits out is prohibitve.
Here's what uname -a gives me:
Linux hannes 2.6.8-gentoo-r4 #1 Mon May 30 11:44:28 PDT 2005 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

thx,
H.

[elvisthedj]

Could you post what kind of mouse you have and the mouse portion of your xorg.conf?
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[hanneshorn]

ok, I'm able to open a browser window on my gentto box (found an old PS2 mouse).

the mouse I'm having problems with is a (wireless) Memorex RF7000 mouse with 5 buttons.

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

# wireless usb mouse (doesn't work)
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" # for usb mouse
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4,5"
EndSection

# PS/2 mouse (works)
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSection

[elvisthedj]

Have a look at This Thread ... Different name, same mouse. (hopefully the same fix )
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[hanneshorn]

Followed a hunch and updated kernel from 2.6.8-r4 to 2.6.11-r7!

Problem with rf7000 mouse and various others went away magically!

thx,
H.