Re: Mouse
There is not support for busmice in the standard boot disk kernel.
Try
# dmesg | grep -i mouse
to see if your mouse was detected by the installed kernel.
You will probably get no output, so you can confirm that the kernel
does not know about your mouse. Otherwise you should see the line
recognizing the bus mouse.
Solution: You will have to recompile the kernel (download the
kernel-source_2.0.6.....deb, etc, etc.)
If you have installed the linuxdoc package (check the name as my memory may not
serve here) then try to look at the Busmouse howto (in Debian the doc is under
/usr/doc/... ).
A last word... yes. it takes times to known any new OS... and since Linux +
Debian are moving targets, that's the price you pay.
cheers,
lazaro <salem@rf.no>
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Subject: Mouse
Author: debian-user@lists.debian.org at cclink
Date: 17.09.96 05:25
Hi,
I've just installed the X11 distribution (xbase, xserver-s3 and xfntbase).
When I try startx it comes back with "no mouse found" or a message to that
effect.
I am using a Dell P120t with a bus mouse connected to the on board
interface. I see quit a few "mouse" devices in /dev. Which one is active?
How can I extract this information without having to turn to the experts?
A minor observation on the Web sites I have looked at so far with respect
Linux and Debian. From my point of view as a UNIX user,
DOS/Windows/Embedded programmer there is very little on-line information
available that I can make sense of. Probably in 6 months time I'll
understand about half of it.... Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places,
maybe the philosophy is only those who know can learn, maybe I don't have
the right IQ, but the fact is that up till now I have come up to a brick
wall. The information available in the HOWTOs is very good, but from an
initial startup point of view, if things go wrong I need to browse through
a couple of MB of data, not very productive.
As I said, maybe I'm looking in the wrong places, please any advice that
may be advantageous.
"Simon Martin"<smartin@reuna.cl>
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