Re: ps/2 mouse not detected if ball not rolling?
This is just a shot in the dark, but do you happen to have your mouse set to
/dev/gpmdata in you XF86Config? If so, trying setting it to /dev/psaux or
/dev/mouse and see if the same behavior happens.
-Rob
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 04:55:42AM -0500, Christopher Mosley wrote:
>
> When starting linux if I do not roll mouse ball I do
> not get a ps2 aux device. Then xwindows will crash when it
> does not detect mouse - crash can be prevented by
> rolling mouse ball when running startx . But alas mouse eventually
> freezes in xwindows. This is a hardware problem - the mouse
> was working fine.
>
> Any reason to believe the problem is the mouse
> or is there a reason to believe the problem is the ps2 hardware?
> Don't have adapter or another ps/2 mouse right now to test this.
>
> Thanks
>
>
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