Re: hideous mouse problem
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, steve winston wrote:
> I have had to reinstall Potato six times now. Something goes wrong each
> time, leaving me with a non-functioning system. I am using LInux System
> Labs CDs, the 3-cd set.
> Right now, the mouse doesn't work. It's either frozen or bouncing
> uncontrollable all over the screen. OK, I see that I must disable gpm to
> get it to work. But how can I disable gpm? I have no access to it.
> Debian bounces straight into GNOME. Ctl-alt-bkspace just takes me back
> to the GNOME log-in. Isn't there some way for me to get into the command
> line?
Ctrl-Alt-F2, log in as root, "/etc/init.d/gpm stop". Or "apt-get remove gpm"
to remove it completely. After that, you might have to Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
in gdm again to get the mouse working.
Regards,
Anne Bezemer
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