Re: Issues with updated Linux -- the mouse
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 11:22 -0800, Jen L wrote:
> --- Ian Greenhoe <ihgreenman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Jen,
> >
> > How is your mouse configured? What type of mouse
> is
> > it -- PS/2, serial,
> > USB? If it is USB, does unplugging it and
> plugging
> > it back in help?
> > Does your touchpad continue to work even if your
> > mouse doesn't?
Sorry, I didn't follow the thread. But a friend of mine had a similar
problem, which had to do with kernel modules not being loaded.
You will need mousedev and maybe evdev.
Hope this helps,
Hp.
>
> My mouse is a basic optical Microsoft USB mouse.
> Unplugging it and plugging it back in don't help at
> all. Sometimes my touchpad still works, but not
> always. Sometimes I can only navigate via keyboard;
> other times the whole system locks up shortly after
> the mouse stops working.
> >
> > If you could, show us the contents of your
> > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
> > or /etc/X11/xorg.conf files.
>
> See attachment. I'm using 3.1, stable.
>
> >
> > Do you know if gpm is installed? If it is, could
> > you send us
> > your /etc/gpm.conf file?
>
> No, it doesn't look like it's installed.
>
>
> > Also, do you have suspend to disk or suspend to
> ram
> > configured? If so,
> > does suspending and resuming cause your mouse to
> > come back?
>
> I'm not familiar with this, but I can see this as
> being very useful, even if it doesn't help my
> current
> situation. What do I need to do?
>
> Thanks
>
> Jen
>
>
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