Re: No mouse on console
/etc/gpm.conf:
devvice /dev/input/mice
i'm not in my debian box right now.
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> 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):
>
> ----------------------
> 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
> -----------------------
>
> gpm 1.19.6-12 is installed
>
> gpmconfig says:
> --------------------
> Device: /dev/gpmdata
> Type: imps2
> Repeat_Type: raw
> --------------------
>
> 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
> --------------------------
> PID TTY TIME CMD
> --------------------------
>
>
> 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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