Re: USB Mouse Problem
Matt Barnett wrote:
> I've just installed debian on my rev. a beige g3. Everything works fine,
> except, of course, that X (specifically xpmac.rev10) doesn't acknowledge my
> usb mouse. The usb mouse and my usb card are properly detected by the kernel
> during boot up, so this just seems to be a case of a debian newbie being hit
> with the input layer changes. Unfortunately, I've read back posts on the
> list, and haven't been able to discover how to fix this. I'm using Xpmac,
> btw, because the X server installed by default is completely non-functional
> on my machine. It displays garbage if it can be made to start at all, and as
> I understand it, XF86 4 isn't accelerated on my machine anyways.
It is. It won't be as easy to get going as with a Rage128 chip but it would
probably be worth it.
If you absolutely want to stay with Xpmac I'm afraid you'll have to look for a
version which can handle the new input layer and/or USB mice.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
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