Re: mouse configuration
have you run gpmconfig recently? That'd be the first step...
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Mithras wrote:
> Excuse me if this question is really basic.
>
> After installing Debian for the first time (but not Linux), I
> discovered the mouse wasn't working.
>
> It didn't move at all at first, and I found last night that /dev/mouse
> was just symlinked to some weird device, but not ttyS0 like it should
> (for my 3-button Logitech mouse). When I started X, however, the
> mouse moved only in occasionally sudden leaps to the left & downward,
> while also sending imaginary mouse clicks (pop-up menus appeared).
>
> Could I have chosen the wrong mouse device to link to? I've heard
> that GNOME can be sluggish, but this doesn't appear to be a system
> grinding along (other symptoms, like hard drive activity, or slow
> screen draws, are not evident). (My cpu is an AMD K6 233, with 80M.)
> I cleaned the mouse wheels, so it couldn't be that either.
>
> Note: I did notice an X error on the console about accessing the mouse
> after I quit last night, but alas I don't have that message written down.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Besides this mouse problem, I'd just like to say how *pleased* I've
> been with Debian. The default X environment (what I've been able to
> see of it) and Xdm are gorgeous, and when I discovered that xdm & my
> mouse problem conspired to keep me from a console or xterm prompt, I
> really appreciated finding the shell prompt available from the boot
> CD. My past experience has been with old Red Hat & Slackware
> distributions, which simply didn't look as *pretty* as Debian.
> (Trivial perhaps, but it is somehow satisfying when your favorite
> operating system doesn't look like a sow's ear.)
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> ben taylor
>
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