mouse wierdness

[Marvin Bellamy]

I just bought a USB mouse with wheel support (same setup as you), and 
after the first couple boots, my mouse no longer works.  I'll have to 
see if your solution works for me.  Has anyone gotten sound to work with 
Mandrake8.1?  I'm using the alsa sound modules, but the steps I've used 
on Slackware and Redhat don't work.  I don't have to recompile sound 
support into the kernel, do I?

J. Eric Gilliland wrote:

>I hope you all had a good weekend.  I wanted to report
>some mouse wierdness I experienced.  I am running a
>dual boot system with Win XP and Mandrake 8.1.  I have
>a Kensington wheel mouse, but I had never been aboe to
>get the wheel working. Whenever I used mousedrake the
>mouse just freaked and I would have to reinstall the
>mouse as a standard PS2 mouse with no wheel support. 
>Well, yesterday while booting manrake the hardware
>detector started and detected my mouse.  I selected
>generic PS2 wheel mouse from the list and now the
>wheel mouse worked perfectly in linux (which is good,
>'cause I need it for Quake 3!).  ANy idea why the
>hardware detector waited so long to detect my mouse? 
>It works now, but I am curious.
>
>Thanks for the time,
>
>Eric Gilliland
>
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