Re: Potato broke my mouse in X?

[Aaron Solochek <leko@cmu.edu>]

That did it.  Thanks, although that seems like something I should have tried...


-Aaron Solochek
 leko@cmu.edu


Ben Lutgens wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 02:52:15PM -0400, Aaron Solochek wrote:
> > I just installed a potato partiton, all seemed to go well.  I even
> > installed accelerated X on it, and its setup didn't segfault, an obvious
> > improvement.  The first time I ran X everything worked fine.  Then, out
> > of the blue, the mouse stopped working in X.  I was doing a lot of stuff
> > trying to set up the system.  I rebuilt the kernel, but I'm sure that
> > was configured correctly, I installed a bunch of stuff, I uninstalled a
> > bunch of stuff.  But nothing that should affect the mouse.  The mouse
> > works on console.  Its a logitech mouseman, ps/2.  All of my settings
> > are for a ps/2 mouse on /dev/psaux.  I have gpm and the lib's installed,
> > I even tried installing the libc5 gpmlibs.  But no go.  Where else
> > should I look?  X knows its a ps/2 on /dev/psaux.
> Is gpm running? if so kill it and startx and see if your mouse works.
>
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