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Re: Mouse problem



It's simple enough to have /dev/gpmdata as your device if you are
running GPM, but if you don't need GPM, simply do a

# apt-get remove gpm

will work (here, # stands for _root_ not _comment_)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Cheng-Dar K Lee" <chengk@seas.upenn.edu>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 11:09 PM
Subject: Mouse problem


> Hi,
>   I am a newbie of Debian.  I tried to install the potato version of
> Debian for like the nth time and still couldn't get my mouse worked.  The
> mouse doesn't follow my hand motion and moves erratically on the screen
> in X.  The protocol in XF86Config is "PS/2" and the device driver for the
> mouse is "/dev/psaux", which is the configuration info I got when I
> installed RH 6.2.
>   Every time after I installed Debian, I tried to kill gpm in a different
> console and the mouse worked fine.  But when I reboot the system, the
> mouse stopped working and reverted to erratic motion.  The problem
> continues even after I stop gpm.  I looked through mouse HOWTO
> documentation in linuxdoc.org and tried everything I could possibly find,
> but still couldn't find a solution.  I'm kinda frustruated at this
> point.  So if anyone can give me some thoughts, it would be great!
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin Lee
>
>
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