Re: Problems wit ps/2 mouse

[Philipp Schulte <p.schulte@matrix.uni-duisburg.de>]

On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 04:48:33PM +0100, Edwin Hoff wrote: 

> I'm running debian potato on my computer. The problem is, that the
> system doesn't  initialize my ps/2-mouse automatically. To get access to
> the mouse i always run gpmconfig "manually" as root, after this
> procedure the mouse works. Which settings are necessary to have the
> mouse configured automatically.

Well, I can think of two situations, that might cause this problem:
1. gpm is not started
2. somehow your gpm.conf gets changed

Phil