Re: Mouse Problems
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 00:20:14 +0200, William Bradley wrote:
> I have just installed Debian (the latest, I forget the number) and got
> it going graphically with Window Maker. Can't get the mouse to work
> though. It is installed on /dev/psaux
That means you have a PS/2 mouse?
> and the pointer is on the screen but immobile. This particular machine
> is dualed with Windows 98, so I looked up the mouse and though it is a
> Logitech mouse, Windows lists it as a PS/2 mouse.
Cool.
> When I ran "dmesg" it showed the Com 1 was listed as tty00 and I tried
> it at that setting and got the same result.
Let's forget about COM1 for the moment and assume it's a PS/2 model. (You
can find that out easily BTW. Just look at the mouse plug. When it's
round like a circle, it's PS/2.)
So, the usual "my mouse doesn't work" questions:
* What mouse protocol did you set up in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4?
* Do you run the program "gpm"? (If you don't know what that is, the answer
is probably no.)
* Exit from X. At the console, type
cat /dev/psaux
The program should wait and say nothing. Now move the mouse. Do you get
random garbage on the screen?
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