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> Am 29. Sep, 2002 schwätzte Mark Berkwitt so:
> 
> > Everything was installed and I was at the point where I define my mouse. I
> > have a MS Intelli-mouse on ps/2 so I selected a ps/2 wheel mouse. As soon as
> > I did that it went nuts, cursor jumpin all around, system froze. I had to
> > push the reset on the box.
> > Now, how do I return to that point again so I don't have to reinstall?

I'm jumping in at the end, so I don't know if you were doing an install when
this happened, or later.

If you are IN the install, there is only one place in Mandrake that I remember
being able to choose the mouse, and that's at the start.  I've almost never had
good luck changing that value - if the mouse works at that point I always leave
it alone.

If you are running one of those nifty x free setup thingies, I have had mixed
luck with them.  Sometimes they make it better, sometimes worse....

However, at the point where the mouse was jumping all over the place, if you
were inside mandrake setup you should have been able to use the keyboard -
I've never had mandrake lock up so bad that the keyboard quit working 
(well, ok, if you get the video card wrong in x setup you can really 
mess yourself up! ;-).
> 
> You reinstalled, but for the future it's easy to change in
> /etc/X11/XF86config-4. Don't know if every dist has the '-4' on the end of
> that filename.

I think that depends upon which Xfree you are using - version 4.x.x apparently
uses the -4, 3.3.x does not - at least that's what I think I've seen.

THe following is good advice, anyway (unless you are using gpm, in which
case you might have other issues - but I forget, its been a while since
I had to use gpm to merge 2 mice (I was using a Toshiba laptop)...

> In the "InputDevice" section there's an option to choose the "Protocol".
> "PS/2" is for a normal ps2 mouse and "ImPS/2" is for a ps2 scroll mouse. In
> this case it shouldn't matter, though. A ps2 scroll mouse will work in ps2
> mode, but the scroll won't work. A ps2 mouse in ps2 scroll mouse mode won't
> scroll because there's no wheel. Otherwise they should work fine.


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