Mice

If you have information about setting up a mouse in LTSP, please edit this page, and add your notes.

Basics

For basics of setting up a mouse, search for "mouse" in the page lts.conf.

LTSP 4.1 + USB Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse 2.0

This may help someone out there...

My system: Compaq EVO510USDT, LTSP 4.1 kernel. XF86Config with the following:

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver       "mouse"
  Identifier   "Mouse[1]"
  Option       "ButtonNumber" "5"
  Option       "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
  Option       "Name" "Autodetection"
  Option       "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
  Option       "Vendor" "Sysp"
  Option       "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Results in chaotic mouse behaviour. On inspection, the kernel seems to make a redundant load of the usbmouse module. "rmmod usbmouse" restores sanity.

-- PaulReeve - 20 Dec 2004

Old hardware can't always autodetect USB mice

Some old hardware doesn't autodetect the presence of a USB mouse. In that case edit /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/lts.conf

and

         X_MOUSE_PROTOCOL   = "IMPS/2"

in either the [Default] section (if all your mice are USB or just add it to the specific terminal section if you have a mixed environment

-- PaulZagoridis - 01 Dec 2005

USB mice scrollwheel

If you have trouble with your ScrollWheel^? working correctly with tabs (GAIM, Mozilla) in LTSP4.2, try setting the following in your lts.conf. This will work with USB mice.

         X_USBMOUSE_DEVICE   = "/dev/null"
         X_MOUSE_DEVICE   = "/dev/input/mice"
         X_MOUSE_PROTOCOL   = "imps/2"

-- MichaelBlinn - 02 Mar 2007

When all else fails: Older kernel for scrollwheel

I could not get the scrollwheel of my Logi MX1000 to work on a client with kernel 2.6.9. Then I somehow discovered that it works well on another client with kernel 2.4.26. And no, I don't know why.

You may install both kernels in /tftpboot, you just have to set the older kernel in dhcpd.conf for the corresponding client. Then restart the demon (rcdhcpd restart on a SuSE^? distribution).

-- AlfredPoschmann - 19 Feb 2006

Mouse autodetection

See http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/WorkInProgress#Mouse_Autodetection.