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Re: Mouse doesn't work in Xwindow, NFS, bug(3.)???



What I did was that I removed gpm: dpkg -r gpm
Now works in X. But not of much use, since I have no applications (see message with subject: no visible applications)

Justin Megawarne wrote:

> On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 06:22:23AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> > A fresh installation using the boot floppies in frozen directory
> > (ftp.debian...), dselect + apt-get used to continue installation.
> > Problems:
> > 1. Mouse (/dev/psaux, ps2 with wheel) doesn't work after setting it up
> > through xf86config; it had always worked before. Mouse works in console,
> > detected by gpm with correct settings. Guessing: Since I had installed
> > imwheel, I thought it could have messed up the settings, removed
> > "imwheel", but still doesn't work. Don't know what to do.
>
> Yes, I had this too ... it seems you have to `gpm -k` or `killall -9 gpm` for everything to work happily, which is a PITA, to say
> the least ... the ps2 repeating is reported not to be supported, which I think is a total lie =P
>
> If it works after killing gpm, you have a repeating problem. I'm not sure how to fix that side of things. Anyone out there? =)
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