Linspire does not detect my mouse?!!

[imagineer_aman]

I recently used Linspire 2005 given in this month's digit dvd.everything was detected(even my pci modem was detected) except my Mouse. I think by default linspire uses ps2 mouse but my mouse is plugged in com port(COM 1)-u know,the old type of ball-mice.Pls tell me how to make Linspire detect my Mouse. Its really difficult to use only Keyboard!!!
Thanks!

[ujjwal]

Open the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file with any text editor (if you can only use the command prompt, try "nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf", or "pico /etc/X11/xorg.conf") and look for the lines about your mouse, and modify it so that it looks like

Section "InputDevice"

# Identifier and driver

Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "Microsoft"
Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"

The lines in blue are those that should be modified.

[Aijaz Akhtar]

But how is he going to modify a file as i presumed that he is talking about Linspire Live??

[ujjwal]

Why not? The /etc directory will be created on the RAM while booting up the system, so its writable

But if it is a live cd, you will need to do this on each boot.

[imagineer_aman]

Thanks ujjwal.I'll surely give it a try!

[Aijaz Akhtar]

Yes I was mistaken when I thought that the Live CDs cannot be used in modifying/sav ing any file. That I wrote before the FOSS workshop. At the workshop a colleague of mine even demostrated to modify fstab and mount the drives and make them writeable. Great.

[imagineer_aman]

oh wow!Aijazz tell me how do u modify fstab in live cds and make the hard disk writeable.It'll be a real help!