No mouse on console
Has anyone managed to get a USB mouse working on a Powerbook G4
on the console?
If yes: How did you do it?
I have here a Logitech optical wheel mouse, and nothing so far
seems to get it running on the console.
Output in /var/log/syslog says (as it seems for disconnecting and then
reconnecting the mouse to the USB connector):
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Jun 21 18:48:51 debby kernel: usb.c: USB disconnect on device 2
Jun 21 18:48:58 debby kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 3
Jun 21 18:48:58 debby kernel: input4: Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse on usb1:3.0
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gpm 1.19.6-12 is installed
gpmconfig says:
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Device: /dev/gpmdata
Type: imps2
Repeat_Type: raw
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I *think* I had it connected to /dev/psaux before, but I'm not sure of
that ...
So far, none of the settings I tried got the mouse up and running
Strange:
At the end of gpmconfig I'm told by this routine that the
mouse interface server : gpm
is first stopped, then started, but all this without any error message.
(Just once, IIRC, it said it could not see a gpm.pid (?) in some
directory, or something like that)
But when I do a
ps -C gpm
all I get is
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PID TTY TIME CMD
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Or, as another possibility to solve this:
Is the Debian-Version I'm running -- 3.0 r1, stable -- so broken,
incomplete, or whatever, that it will make sense to upgrade to testing?
After all there are more things here that do not work.
Could be very well that all this and other mess here is due to my lack of
experience with Debian ... but if the stuff is simply buggy then please
someone let me know ...
Thanks in anticipation.
Best Regards,
Wolfgang Pfeiffer
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