Re: KDE: mouse problems
On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 14:26, Michel Loos wrote:
> On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 12:26, Roland Wegmann wrote:
> >
> > I have a curious mouse problem! When I start debian, the system recognizes
> > my mouse (MS Wheel Mouse Optical USB) first. After kdm is launched,
> > sometimes my mouse is inactive sometimes it works.
> > In the former case I have to reboot the system (sometimes several times),
> > but then the mouse works under KDE 2.1.1, too. Under X-Window the mouse was
> > active in any case.
> >
>
> Probably a problem with gpm: just desactivate gpm
>
> /etc/init.d/gpm stop
>
> and remove it from your startup since it seems you don t use the
> console.
>
> /usr/bin/update-rc.d -f gpm remove
If you don't want to use gpm, just apt-get remove it. However, it really
shouldn't hurt so long as you use /dev/input/mice for the mouse.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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