Re: mouse troubles with Debian on Dell Latitude CPx J650GT
On 8 Feb 01 21:53:48 GMT, Michael A. Miller <mmiller3@iupui.edu> wrote:
>I've recently installed Debian (stable) onto a Dell CPx J650GT
>laptop. After installing the base system and the required
>packages, I added the SVGA and Mach64 xservers and the
>depended-upon packages. startx works in that I get a screen with
>an xterm in it, but I cannot move my pointer with the touch pad,
>the pointing stick, or an externally attached ps/2 mouse. This
>is using the PS/2 protocol and /dev/mouse in my XF86Config file.
>If I switch to /dev/psaux, the pointer zooms off screen as soon
>as I touch the touch pad or mouse. Any suggestions on how to
>trouble shoot this? Gpm seems to work fine on the console.
If you accepted the default config for gpm then it should be acting as
a repeater making translated mouse events available through
/dev/gpmdata. Configure X to use the "Intellimouse" protocol and
/dev/gpmdata as the mouse device.
Frank
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