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scubacuda
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 Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 8:05 pm Post subject: [solved] "xorg is not able to detect your mouse" |
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Whenever I runlike The X Server Configuration HOWTO says, I get the following error: | Code: | Xorg is not able to detect your mouse.
Edit the file and correct the device |
What might I do to fix this? I notice that there is no /dev/mouse. Might this be a problem?
update Per this Gentoo wiki, I fixed my mouse settings.
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| Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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What kind of mouse do you have, then ?
You do have a mouse, I presume ?
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| Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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| adaptr wrote: | What kind of mouse do you have, then ?
You do have a mouse, I presume ? |
I have whatever one came with an HP Omnibook 6100. Is there a utility that I could easily emerge that would give me a detailed list of what I have (some Gentoo equiv to AIDA32)?
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| Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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Erm.. you do understand that I meant what kind of interface it has, yes ?
It's either built-in, PS/2, or USB... there's not a wide range of options here.
If you want to find out what kind of relevant hardware you have, run
from the LiveCD; add -v to see more detail (rarely needed)
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scubacuda
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| Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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| adaptr wrote: | | Erm.. you do understand that I meant what kind of interface it has, yes ? |
Didn't catch that. I have the touchpad that comes with my HP Omnibook. When I run | Code: | | ls /dev/input/mouse* |
I see four mice. How do I determine which one is my touchpad so that I can config my xorg.conf file?
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Have you checked the USE flags available for that ?
If you have a synaptics pad you need to emerge that, too, before X can use it.
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Yes, indeedy.
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| Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:40 pm Post subject: |
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| adaptr wrote: | | Yes, indeedy. |
I ranthen I ran | Code: | cat /proc/nput/devices
I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=ab41
N: Name="AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio0/input0
H: Handlers=kbd event0
B: EV=120013
B: KEY=4 2000000 3802078 f840d001 f2ffffdf ffefffff ffffffff fffffffe
B: MSC=10
B: LED=7
I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0007 Version=0000
N: Name="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
H: Handlers=mouse0 event1
B: EV=b
B: KEY=6420 0 670000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: ABS=11000003
I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0001 Version=0000
N: Name="PS/2 Generic Mouse"
P: Phys=synaptics-pt/serio0/input0
H: Handlers=mouse1 event2
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=3
I: Bus=0010 Vendor=001f Product=0001 Version=0100
N: Name="PC Speaker"
P: Phys=isa0061/input0
H: Handlers=kbd event3
B: EV=40001
B: SND=6 |
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