Re: mouse not working in x
What kind of mouse is it?
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Walter Tautz <wtautz@math.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 11:07:33 -0400 (EDT)
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Bob Edwards <redwards@arkansas.net>
>> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 12:51 AM
>> Subject: mouse not working in x
>>
>>
>> >
>> > Greetings!
>> >
>> > Thanks to a kind reply from an earlier question,
>> > I now have a running xserver, but I have a different problem.
>> > The mouse doesn't work in x.
>> >
>> > I suspect that i have the mouse set up
>> > wrong in X. Question:
>> >
>> > (1) How can I find out which port linux
>> > recognizes my mouse at ?
>> >
>> > info:
>> >
>> > PS/2 mouse
>> > mouse is on IRQ 12 (according to windows)
>> > startup messages state PS/2 port recognized
>> > mouse works in windows
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Bob Edwards
>> > redwards@arkansas.net
>> >
>> >
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>> Do you have installed gpm, the consolse mouse driver? Then remove gpm or
>> kill it with gpm -k before starting X cause the X mouse driver can´t work if
>> gpm is running.
>>
>> Matthias
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>
>I have gpm running while X runs, and I don't think it makes any difference? Most likely
>your mouse protocol in XF86Config file has been misconfigured.
>
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>-walter
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