mouse and keyboard problems in x 3.3.6

[Bob Edwards <redwards@arkansas.net>]

Good day,

Thanks to help from several on this list,
I am very close to getting my mouse
and keyboard problems taken care
of. I really appreciate the time out
of your busy schedules.

Here is where I'm at currently. I'm so
very close to fixing both problems.
My mouse works in console mode
just fine, in x not so fine.

The line in the /etc/gpm.conf file
reads : "type =PS/2", so I changed
the same line to "type=PS/2" in
the XF86Config file.

In the /etc/gpm.conf file there is
a symbolic link from /dev/mouse
to /etc/gpmdata.

However, in the /etc/gpm.conf.file,
an earlier line reads:
device    "/etc/psaux".

There is not a symbolic link
between /dev/psaux to
/dev/mouse.

I took care of most of the keyboard
problems, the only thing is that I have
a microsoft natural keyboard, and I
cannot use the number pad on the far
right. Everything else on the keyboard
works fine, and the server no longer
sends me error messages when
I try to start x.

For your review, relevant sections of
my XF86Config file as it now stands:

**************************
keyboard section

Protocol       "standard"
AutoRepeat    500  5
XkbModel      "Microsoft"

EndSection
***************************
Section Pointer

Protocol            "PS/2"
Device               "/dev/gpmdata"
BaudRate          1200
#ZaxisMapping   4  5
Buttons                3

EndSection
**************************

X does start, and the pointer goes to
the bottom of the screen, but it will
only move back and forth across the
bottom of the screen, but not
up and down.

regards,
Bob Edwards
redwards@arkansas.net
Fayetteville, Arkansas