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Title: Mouse does not/hardly react in X11 mode

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Mouse does not/hardly react in X11 mode

Probably the wrong mouse type has been selected.

We suggest to find out the mouse type manually by running gpm.

For this reason start gpm manually and remove it with gpm -k: For further help:
	gpm -h
	gpm -t help
	man gpm
If no device is configured, both gpm and X11 assume that the mouse is connected to /dev/mouse, which has been set by YaST correctly in most cases.

Now try to configure the mouse type you found out in XF86Config. The different protocol types are these:

    BusMouse
    Logitech
    Microsoft
    MMSeries
    Mouseman
    MouseSystems
    PS/2
    MMHitTab
    Xqueue
    OSMouse
The option Emulate3Buttons needs to be set only when using a 2 button mouse, ChordMiddle is applied for track balls, it changes the behaviour of the middle button.

Tips:

Sometimes it is better to deactivate gpm before starting X11 (gpm -k). In this case the file /etc/rc.d/rc.gpm can be removed, so gpm will not be started at every system boot.

Basically the gpm has problems with bus mice and with some kinds of Logitech mice.

Bus mice produce the error message can't open device /dev/mouse.

Some Logitech mice produce a much stranger effect: the X server starts running, but hangs before anything is displayed, so it looks as if the whole machine got stuck. Solution:

Certain PnP Boards (especially the ones with Award 4.50PnP BIOS) do not work with old Logitech mice. Solution: get another BIOS oder another mouse.

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Keywords: MOUSE, X11, GPM, LOGITECH, AWARD, PILOT, BUSMOUSE

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