Re: keyboard!#%^&
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 02:58:35PM -0500, mmissett wrote:
> Chris,
>
> I decided to take your advice
> and give apt-get another chance, following your
> settings and recommendations and it worked
> perfectly. It really is a remarkable and
> impressive phenomenon.
>
> Thanks.
>
> However, it didn't get startx to work, though, but
> at least it gave me a different error message;
> that xserver-xfree86 was not fully installed. I did
> an apt-get to rectify that situation, which it did,
> then ran dpkg-reconfigure on it, which it did.
> After all that I'm back to my same old error
> message on startx again -- can find the mouse.
> I've tried using (in /etc/X11/XF86Config) for
> device: "/dev/usbmouse" (which I think is what
> reconfigure did, does that sound right?) Then
> "usbmouse" (which is what was in there before
> and worked) and then "/dev/input/mice". None
> of these work. When using "/dev/input/mice" the
> process points out -- correctly -- that there is no
> such file. This is the exact same problem I had
> when I set up potato, which took forever to fix, I
> can't believe I have to go through it all again. My
> recollection is that it was solved at that time with
> "usbmouse", but that is not working now. The
> choices for mouse in reconfigure don't have
> anything that really seems appropriate (like USB
> mouse, for instance). Sorry to be back to the
> same old thing, but do you have any other
> ideas?
>
> Mike
>
> P.S: If I haven't said so far, it's a 3-button/wheel
> Logitech USB mouse.
AFAIK, /dev/input/mice is the correct node for all powerpc mice. You
might try
cd /dev
./MAKEDEV input
That should at least create the device. Hopefully, someone else will
weigh in.
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