I've just completed the installation of Slackware 10.1 on my new system and
everything has gone great (audigy 2zs, nForce audio/network, and geforce)
all work great. The odd problem that I am having is that my Microsoft
IntelliMouse Explorer 4.0A is not working properly in the console or in X.

I've used this mouse in Slack 10 before and it works great, using gpm with
the IMPS2 option. But now, the mouse responds only in the Y-Axis (but not
x-axis).

As I have switched from VIA to nVidia for the motherboard chipset I cannot
rule that out. The mouse works fine in Windows XP (dual booting).

I am using the default sata.i kernel (2.4.xx). Could USB be broken?

Any help?

I can only try to help you, but this solved my problem:
try to uncomment these two lines:

#/sbin/modprobe hid
#/sbin/modprobe usbmouse

in /etc/rc.c/rc.modules.
Try this way and let me know if it works...
Bye

p.s. more information in the HowTo "Getting your optical wireless
intellimouse explorer to work in Slack", on Linuxquestions.org

That worked great.

Thanks!

I had this same problem, and at the suggestion of another member of
this newsgroup, I uncommented the "hid" line, and it worked. (Thanks,
Jacques!) Uncommenting both lines also worked.

However, after a period of inactivity (maybe a couple of hours), the
mouse cursor disappears. I can't say if this would happen if the mouse
were being used... this is a server box. I found that unloading +
reloading the modules using "rmmod" and "insmod" restores it. But it
is annoying to do that all the time, and I'd like to figure out what
the problem is. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Dan

On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 12:43:55 GMT, "Giuseppe Marini"
<cprogrammer@katamail.com> wrote:

>I can only try to help you, but this solved my problem:
>try to uncomment these two lines:
>
>#/sbin/modprobe hid
>#/sbin/modprobe usbmouse
>
>in /etc/rc.c/rc.modules.
>Try this way and let me know if it works...
>Bye
>
>p.s. more information in the HowTo "Getting your optical wireless
>intellimouse explorer to work in Slack", on Linuxquestions.org
>