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Re: The mouse is OK
> Hi,
> Thanks for answering,
> witch types of configuration you think are better for a Logitech mouse ?
As I understand it, the difference between the various Logitech mice is the
protocol by which they communicate with the computer. If this is correct, the
question is "what type of Logitech mouse do you have ?", rather then "what
type of configuration is better for a Logitech mouse ?".
You can check what type of Logitech mouse you have by:
1) Looking at the box and/or uers manual and/or the bottom of the mouse. My
mouse, which is also a Logitech mouse, has "MouseMan" printed on its buttom,
and this is exactly the information that is needed.
2) by trail and error. That is, by tring the various possible types in the
configuration file, hopping that at least one will work.
The following is taken from the XF86Config.5x man page:
"
One should specify BusMouse for the Logitech bus
mouse. Also, many newer Logitech serial mice use
either the Microsoft or MouseMan protocol. Xqueue
"
> About the mouse problem, how can I change the mouse configuration ?
You can change the mouse configuration by setting the needed information in
the configuration file. Perhaps there is also a possibility to use a command
line switches, but this is not convinient and is therefor usualy useful for
testing purposes only. I think there are only 2 files that have to be changed.
On my system (Debian 1.3.1) these files are:
1) /etc/X11/XF86Config for the X windows.
2) /etc/gpm.conf for the VTs.
For X windows, you can try using XF86Setup which is
"
XF86Setup is normally used to either perform the initial
setup of the XFree86 X servers or to make adjustments to
the existing configuration.
"
or to manualy change the pointer section in the XF86Config file.
For gpm, perhaps my gpm.conf can be used as a prototype:
# /etc/gpm.conf - configuration file for gpm(1)
# Written by Martin Schulze <joey@debian.org>
#
# Mostly self-explanatory. If you mouse seems to be to slow, try
# to set responsiveness=15, append contains some random arguments appended
# to the commandline.
#
# This file is used by /etc/init.d/gpm and is created and
# modified by /usr/sbin/gpmconfig.
#
device=/dev/ttyS0
responsiveness=
type=mman
append=""
As you can see from it, I have a gpmconfig utility.
> If I already asking you, do you know how can I run again the
> installation program in order to add or remove some part of the
> installation ?
You can, ofcourse, install the whole system again. But this it highly
undesirable and should be used only as a last resort.
Usualy adding or removing parts of an existing program, such as changing the
mouse type, can be done by changing the configuration files.
Adding programs can be done by compiling the sources and setting the
configuration files. And removing programs can be done by deleting the
appropriate files. But a better way, both for adding and deleting, is to use
the packages managment utility, which most widely used linux distributions are
using. For RedHat, which is my guess to the distribution you use, this is the
rpm command.
As a last remark, allow me to suggest you to check the FAQs, HOWTOs, man pages
and other documantion available.
> Thanks & regards,
>
> Arie Guttman
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