no mouse in Mandriva

Discussion in 'Parallels Desktop for Mac' started by sam, Dec 9, 2006.

  1. sam

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    I installed Mandriva 2007 on my new Core 2 Duo MacBook and everything works including KDE and the keyboard, but I don't seem to have a mouse. Once exiting I get 4 copies of the following in the messages:

    (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/mouse
    No such file or directory.

    I'm obviously doing something wrong in the installation but I can't figure what. I've tried installing a bunch of times with different selections of the mouse, but same results each time. I've also tried with a USB mouse on some installs and just the trackpad on others.

    I've successfully installed Windows XP and Fedora Core 6, with no problems (except that the latter started out with a too-big video resolution), so the problem doesn't seem to be generic to my machine or the Parallels installation.

    sam
     
  2. sam

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    I found a solution after another install of Mandriva 2007 (under Parallels for Mac build 1970): I changed the mouse "Protocol" in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file from "mouse" to "psmouse" and everything is working just fine.
     

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