Re: X works, but no mouse?
On 8 May, Brent Metzler wrote:
> 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.
>
I wish you were right, but alas, you are not. I'm stuck in the exact
same problem as what Jeffrey Brock wrote below for my laptop. This is a
SuSE installation with the 2.2.5 kernel.
The problem goes away when I install the optional alternative kernel,
2.0.36. This is a temporarily acceptible solution to me.
I usually have gpm set up as a repeater and X using the repeater
device, however, gpm can't start either.
An strace of 'cat /dev/psaux' gives me the same errors about not being
able to open the device, and /var/log/messages reveals that the kernels
wants (and fails) to load a module for char-major-10-1 (which is
/dev/psaux).
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
--Tim :-)
> -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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