I need better mouse ware in Mint!

[Daniel ~]

Do you mean the left and right click? Yes they do. It feels fine, just stuck in the wrong gear for traveling long distances across my desktop!.

I'm trying your new rez and sensitivity settings now Sorry not to know more about this! ":O}

[Daniel ~]

Tried 400, no change, trying 800...

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Resolution" "800"
Option "Sensitivity" "100"
# generated from default

[Daniel ~]

No change...sigh.... Could another app on my system be interfering with these settings?

[ccperf721p]

I meant the little buttons above and below the scroll wheel. Do they have any effect?

[Daniel ~]

I just found out that they do! I have several tabs open in my browser one move forward thought the tabs, the other backwards thought the tabs...may have other uses...didn't realize they worked in Linux!

I've been looking for other apps that work with the mouse on my machine here's all I found...didn't make a difference...

[Daniel ~]

I blew it somehow! upon reboot Mint told me my Nvidia drivers were not installed and was using a lower rez. It gave me a choice of using back up or system drivers, I tried back up but no go, System drivers are working. I went into Nvidia setting to correct if I could, no go (see pics).

I can do a restore in two hours ( fresh back up} if this can't be easily fixed...it DOES save you time! ":O}

[ccperf721p]

The driver is still installed so just run sudo nvidia-xconfig..

[Daniel ~]

I tried that":O} Once I got the x server message I tried X config, saw the new backup message and tried to get xserver again... say...do I need a re-boot? I'll try that! ":O}

[Daniel ~]

"I" needed a...REBOOT! LOL

[Daniel ~]

But WOW! look what happened to Mousey! I'll set it up again...":O}

[ccperf721p]

We will need to make a few changes to get the mouse working correctly. So hold off until I get home and test the changes first..

[Daniel ~]

Where I'm at now...still no change!?

[Daniel ~]

Originally Posted by ccperf721p

We will need to make a few changes to get the mouse working correctly. So hold off until I get home and test the changes first..

Few things please as much as kindness. Many thanks Cliff!

[ccperf721p]

Looks like the problem came from running nvidia-xconfig and it created it's own Input Section so we will remove that and let Mint handle the mouse for us..

 sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Then remove this section.

 Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Resolution" "256"
Option "Sensitivity" "100"
# generated from default
EndSection

Reboot and let me know where we are at.

[Daniel ~]

Deleted the above section> rebooted, Mouse seems a bit better but lots of room for improvement going by pass usage before the slow down. small secondary buttons you mentioned no longer work. So I took a look at Xorg config, and it's pretty much gone, I'm real sure I only deleated what you wanted me to...if that helps..? BTW It no longer asks for my password after entering "sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf"

[Daniel ~]

I was wrong, mouse isn't at all better...just a bit different.":O}

[ccperf721p]

I don't know what happened, I guess it just decided to delete itself

show me cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup

[Daniel ~]

I did a back up this morning if a quick restore is advised...":O}


daniel@daniel-desktop ~ $ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder63) Mon Mar 23 15:33:27 PST 2009

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
# generated from default
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "DontZap" "False"
EndSection

[ccperf721p]

Don't be too quick to restore stuff under linux. For the most part it's repairable if it's just configuration files.

let's put the old file back.

 sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup /etc/X11/xorg.conf

logout or reboot

[Daniel ~]

Originally Posted by ccperf721p

Don't be too quick to restore stuff under linux. For the most part it's repairable if it's just configuration files.

let's put the old file back.

 sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup /etc/X11/xorg.conf

logout or reboot

Yeah, I figured that yesterday when I learned that Linux keeps backup files! ":O}

No happenings!

daniel@daniel-desktop ~ $ sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup /etc/X11/xorg.conf
[sudo] password for daniel:
daniel@daniel-desktop ~ $ sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup /etc/X11/xorg.conf
daniel@daniel-desktop ~ $

Trying re-boot just in case! ":O}