Re: MS Wheel Mouse (optical USB) doesn't work
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 07:58:35PM +0200, Roland Wegmann wrote:
>
> First, I have to say thank you for the tips you gave me to solve my CD-ROM
> problems! Now, I can eject my Disks. But unfortunately, the next problem is
> waiting to be solved. After Potato has booted, my screen shows a login
> window. There I can login as root. After that, my screen displays the debian
> logo and some icons in the top right-hand corner. In the centre of the
> screen is the mouse icon, but it won't work.
>
> I use a MS Wheel Mouse Optical USB (PS/2 Compatible). I red someting about
> gpmconfig, but when I use this command, nothing happens. Do I have to
> install a "gpm-tool" ? And if so, where can I find it? Another thing I have
> seen, is something about XF86Config. Could anybody help me?
You can look at /etc/X11/XF86Config. This is where the mouse is specified.
You probably want to specify that it use the mouse device /dev/input/mice
and the protocol imps2, but I'm at work and my home computer is off, so I
can't check.
> By the way, is it possiple to change the settings, so that my debian system
> doesn't boot automatically to the window with the debian logo? I would
> prefere a level, where I can start XWindow and Genome myself.
You could probably do this with `apt-get remove xdm gdm kdm`, since it's
probably one of those that is starting up in the beginning. Of course,
this would be overkill since it would remove those programs from your
system. But this might be reasonable if you want to use startx to start
X.
Also, you could just get a console by typing ctrl-cmd-Fn (where Fn is
anything from F1 to F6). You can get back to X with ctrl-cmd-F7. cmd here
is the apple key with the cloverleaf on it.
--
David Roundy
http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
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