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Mon, 5 Jan 2009 06:15:54 +0100
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-- Le (On) 2009-01-04 -0500 à (at) 15:28:39 Kin Yip écrivit (wrote): --

> Hi,
> 
> I have an old computer box which has an old PS/2 mouse interface (with a mouse called InPort Mouse) and  I've been using SL 3.x.  
> So today, I've finally taken the gut to upgrade it SL5.1 (with SL5.1).  I've chosen the "base" only so that I need only 1 CD and then 
> I've added to it from network using "yum install....".
> 
> The X display didn't work at first when the system chose automatically :
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier  "Videocard0"
>         Driver      "cirrus"
> EndSection
> 
> in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> 
> I've made it work by changing "cirrus" to "vesa".  
> 
> But so far, the mouse just doesn't work.  ( It used to work in SL 3.x. ) I regretted that I didn't save any files before formatting the harddisk
> (as I didn't expect any problem).
> 
> Is there anything which I should install or any tool that I can "configure" the mouse ?   Long time ago, there used to be mouseconfig or 
> something like that, but not any more ?
> 

       Hi,

       I don't know about your mouse but the command to configure should be
       /usr/bin/system-config-mouse


       Hope this help and happy new year to everybody.

><snip> 


-- 
                 Best regards,
                               Robert FRANCHISSEUR

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