Xconfigurator bombing on me (mouse issues)

[Andrew Wallace <andyw globilltech com>]

Hey folks -
I'm (still) having issues running Xconfigurator. This is Redhat
7.1. I am trying to up my screen resolution to take advantage of
my nice big monitor.

Anyway, I "su -", then run Xconfigurator. It probes for the video
cardand finds it ok. I then get the error

"There was an error reading the file /etc/sysconfig/mouse.
 Would you like to proceed in creating a new configuration?"

I say yes, and it exits immediately, with this on my console:

   [root c2 andyw]# Xconfigurator
   Xconfigurator: Critical error reading /etc/sysconfig/mouse.
   Xconfigurator: Check permissions of /etc/sysconfig/mouse.
   Xconfigurator: Also - make sure you are running this program as root

Just for grins, I check the file in question:

   [root c2 andyw]# ls -l /etc/sysconfig/ | grep mouse
   -rwxrwxrwx    1 root     root          104 Apr 29 12:15 mouse

What the heck is going on? I am using a Dell machine, with a
Microsoft wheel mouse (which works just fine). The contents of
/etc/sysconfig/mouse are:

    MOUSETYPE="ps/2"
    XMOUSETYPE="IMPS/2"
    FULLNAME="Microsoft IntelliMouse (USB)"
    XEMU3=no
    DEVICE=/dev/mouse

And my pointer section of XF86Config (sans commented out lines)
looks like:

   # Pointer section
   # ******************************************************************
   Section "Pointer"
       Protocol    "IMPS/2"
       Device      "/dev/mouse"
       Option "Buttons" "7"

       #  For wheel support - can not be used with Emulate3Buttons
       Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
   EndSection

Any thoughts? Any way to run Xconfigurator, and tell it to skip the
mouse? (My options when it asks if I want it to run mouseconfig are
Ok and Cancel, which give the same result).

All help/suggestions welcomed!

Thanks,
Andy Wallace
andyw globilltech com

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