Re: Mouse stopped working in X
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, John Reinke wrote:
> I've converted my Corel distribution to Debian potato. Although I had a
> few problems, most things seem to be fine, except my mouse now longer works
> in X. It doesn't work with any of the X servers, including within
> XF86Setup. It used to work before, and settings from before don't work.
>
> Here's the really strange part (which may be related): When I'm in the
> console, the mouse DOES work! I've never had that before, but I can move
> it around and copy and paste, just like I should when I'm in X.
If you've a PS/2 mouse you can try to stop gpm (console mouse) with "gpm
-k". You mouse should work in X now. To solve this problem and to be able
to use you within X and the console you can try to use /dev/gpmdata as you
mouse device for X.
regards,
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Staf Wagemakers
email : staf@digibel.org
homepage : http://www.digibel.org/~staf
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