Intellimouse Explorer 4.0a only moves vertically

[Pimpbot 5000]

Hello,

After installing Slackware 10.1, my mouse was acting very oddly. The
mouse is a Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer 4.0a (with tilt-wheel),
plugged into a USB port. The cursor would only move vertically, even
when the mouse was physically moved horizontally. This was occurring
in both console mode & X, so I figured it was a driver problem.

Searching usenet, I found a couple posts indicating that a similar
problem was solved by running:

modprobe -r usbmouse
modprobe hid

I tried this, and it worked like a charm. I'm just wondering if anyone
can provide an explanation as to why this is necessary. Also, what is
the "recommended" approach to making this change permanent?

Thanks,
Dan

BTW, I first experienced Linux back in college with Slackware 3.0.
Although in the meantime I've mainly used other (more commercial)
distributions, I'm very impressed with the look of the latest versions
of Slackware. So far I'm quite happy with the stability and simplicity
of configuration. So I'd like to thank Pat and the rest of the
development team for their hard effort on this project.

[Jacques]

Post by Pimpbot 5000
Hello,
After installing Slackware 10.1, my mouse was acting very oddly. The
mouse is a Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer 4.0a (with tilt-wheel),
plugged into a USB port. The cursor would only move vertically, even
when the mouse was physically moved horizontally. This was occurring
in both console mode & X, so I figured it was a driver problem.
Searching usenet, I found a couple posts indicating that a similar
modprobe -r usbmouse
modprobe hid
I tried this, and it worked like a charm. I'm just wondering if anyone
can provide an explanation as to why this is necessary. Also, what is
the "recommended" approach to making this change permanent?

1. These two modules are necessary for usb mouse and keyboards to work

2. /etc/rc.d/rc.modules comment lines like
/sbin/modprobe usbmouse
and uncomment the following
#/sbin/modprobe hid

(# is a commentary char in rc.modules, so to uncomment remove it, to
comment add a # at the beginning of the line).

Do this as root.

Voila!

Post by Pimpbot 5000
Thanks,

You're welcome

Post by Pimpbot 5000
Dan
BTW, I first experienced Linux back in college with Slackware 3.0.
Although in the meantime I've mainly used other (more commercial)
distributions, I'm very impressed with the look of the latest versions
of Slackware. So far I'm quite happy with the stability and simplicity
of configuration. So I'd like to thank Pat and the rest of the
development team for their hard effort on this project.

Send him a mail, and buy a cd set to support the project ;-)


Jacques