Re: Path is not set after installation
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 06:33:42AM +0200, Gerd Kautzmann wrote:
> Hallo Chris
>
> Am 10-Mai-02 schrieb Chris Tillman:
>
> CT> On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 09:36:20PM +0200, Gerd Kautzmann wrote:
> CT>> Hallo,
> CT>>
> CT>> I'm very new at the 'Debian PPC Club'. I have installed Debian 'Potato' on
> CT>> my UMAX ( MAC 9000 compatible ) Computer. Linux is comming up and X11
> CT>> shows the Gnome/Debian GUI.
> CT>>
> CT>> But the mouse ( one button ) refuses to work. The pointer just doesn't
> CT>> move.
> CT>>
> CT>> To find out the reason for this behavior, I tried 'man /dev/mouse' but
> CT>> even 'man man' refuses to work.
> CT>>
> CT>
> CT> You should use /dev/input/mice in your XF86Config.
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> I replaced /dev/mouse in /etc/X11/XF86Config with /dev/input/mice
> Nothing changed !
>
> /dev/mouse was a working link to /dev/input/mice and like i told before i get
> characters from /dev/mouse.
>
Oh, I see. Well, you might try upgrading to woody. the X support for
powerpc hardware was pretty shaky in potato. After adding a woody source
in /etc/apt/sources.list, just
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
--
*------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------*
| <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> |
| debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> |
| Chris Tillman tillman@voicetrak.com |
| May the Source be with you |
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