There are several Sites on the net how to setup the special Hardware of a Inspiron 8600 notebook. After some fiddling i just decided now to use a more recent distribution. I use Suse 9.3 and almost all works out of the box. I have no 3D acceleration, but at the moment i don't care.
I bought a Trust Bluetooth MI-5300M mouse and want to use it with Linux. Short: it is quite easy. But why this special device? The Inspiron 8600 has usually a built in Bluetooth hub, so i don't need a extra USB-Stick to connect a wireless mouse. I just need a Bluetooth mouse. Why this mouse? Because it is cheap (34€) and not too big.
The site that did help: http://www.bueche.ch/comp/mx900/mx900.html. But all i did was:
Restarted Xorg and there it was!
Update:
After update from Suse 9.3 to 10.2 my mouse stopped working. In the logs i could see
All i had to do was to initiate:
as root. No idea why this cannot be done from a configuration GUI (or how...)
I bought a Trust Bluetooth MI-5300M mouse and want to use it with Linux. Short: it is quite easy. But why this special device? The Inspiron 8600 has usually a built in Bluetooth hub, so i don't need a extra USB-Stick to connect a wireless mouse. I just need a Bluetooth mouse. Why this mouse? Because it is cheap (34€) and not too big.
The site that did help: http://www.bueche.ch/comp/mx900/mx900.html. But all i did was:
- to check if the device was detected:
hidd[6841]: New HID device 00:0A:94:C0:50:81 (CSR HIDEngine Three Button Mouse)
- change the /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse[2]" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout[all]" InputDevice "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Mouse[2]" "SendCoreEvents" Option "Clone" "off" Option "Xinerama" "off" Screen "Screen[0]" EndSection
Restarted Xorg and there it was!
Update:
After update from Suse 9.3 to 10.2 my mouse stopped working. In the logs i could see
Oct 2 12:45:02 delle hidd[16119]: Rejected connection from unknown device 00:0A:94:C0:50:81
All i had to do was to initiate:
hidd --connect 00:0A:94:C0:50:81
as root. No idea why this cannot be done from a configuration GUI (or how...)