Re: no mouse with X
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 01:51:15PM -0400, Eric Cheney wrote:
>
> Hello. I'm trying to introduce a debian box to my office....I am not
> a sysadmin, so I stumble a little bit with these things. Anyway, I want to make
> a good impression of deb. I've installed woody. I'm getting weird things
> with the mouse. Can somebody help? Here's what's up.
>
> I loaded up X server and it connects and all that. If I start X with
> gpm, I get a mouse, but it is very erratic and unacceptable. So, if
> I remove gpm, and then restart X, the mouse works fine under X. Ok,
> if I then reboot, there's no connection to the mouse without gpm; so after
> reboot (after removing gpm), the mouse is dead under X.
>
> In the XF86Config-4 setup file I have the mouse on /dev/psaux. I checked,
> and there is a link from /dev/psaux -> gpmdata. I'm using a ps/2 mouse.
>
That is correct.
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
Console mouse (gpm) and window managers don't always get on well, I recall
this is often a particular problem with gnome.
Cliff
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