Re: X works, but no mouse?

[Brent Metzler <brentmetzler@hotmail.com>]

I noticed no one else replied to this, so I'll give it a stab.

I had a similar problem with the mouse.  The problem seemed to be caused by running
gpm, the command-line mouse proggie, before X.  This apparently causes conflicts that
X cannot handle.  when I killed gpm, the mouse seemed to work fine in X.

-Brent

Jeffrey Brock wrote:

> When I start X, it fails with the message:
>
> Fatal Server Error:
> Cannot open mouse (Operation not supported by device)
>
> It's a PS/2 mouse, and it gets detected by the motherboard on bootup.
>
> XF86Config has "PS/2" for Protocol and "/dev/psaux" for Device
>
> Amy idea what is going on?
>
> I've run XF86Setup, and tried using the microsoft protocol etc, to no avail.
> I've tried a mouse, with the same result.
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Jeff Brock
> jbrock@terc.edu
>
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