Re: XF86 wants a mouse file
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 03:57:12PM -0400, mmissett wrote:
> Georg and Andy,
> Alas, sorry to come back with bad news, and if you're
> getting sick of this, I can't blame you, so am I.
> Anyway, tried your suggestions with the following
> results:
>
> >Probably you can try to create a character device by
> >mknod /dev/input/mice c 13 63
>
> This produced the answer: "mknod /dev/input/mice:
> No such file or directory"
> Now I know I was trying to *create* a file, but that
> is the message I got.
>
> >If you have /dev/input/mice, you should configure your mouse with
> >gpmconfig so that it works on console.
>
> It tells me: "gpmconfig: command not found"
> locate gpmconfig gives me nothing
> man gpmconfig gives me: "no manual entry for gpmconfig"
>
> Am I doing something wrong here, or missing a point?
you have to run gpmconfig as root, are you root?
and, is it installed?
apt-get install gpm
goodluck,
sisi
> Again, sorry to come back with more negative news and if
> you just want to forget about it, go ahead. I appreciate
> all your help so far and may just reign myself to upgrading.
> (If you do have ideas though, I would still be glad to hear
> them.) Thanks again,
> Mike
>
>
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