no mouse with X

[Eric Cheney <eric@sociostat.org>]

Hello.  I'm trying to introduce a debian box to my office....I am not 
a sysadmin, so I stumble a little bit with these things.  Anyway, I want to make 
a good impression of deb.   I've installed woody.  I'm getting weird things 
with the mouse.  Can somebody help?  Here's what's up.

I loaded up X server and it connects and all that.  If I start X with 
gpm, I get a mouse, but it is very erratic and unacceptable.  So, if 
I remove gpm, and then restart X, the mouse works fine under X.  Ok, 
if I then reboot, there's no connection to the mouse without gpm; so after 
reboot (after removing gpm), the mouse is dead under X.

In the XF86Config-4 setup file I have the mouse on /dev/psaux.  I checked, 
and there is a link from /dev/psaux -> gpmdata.  I'm using a ps/2 mouse.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

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Eric Cheney
cheney@soc.umass.edu