Re: Mouse freeze -- Debian 2.2r4 PPC
Sometime around 9:01 AM -0600 on 11/28/01, Kent West pounded out this ditty:
Marc Stergionis wrote:
Just installed 2.2r4 on a PM 8600. However the mouse is frozen on
screen and clicks do nothing, which wouldn't matter much since t
can't move anyway.
The mouse actually worked fine in a recent install of Potato 2.2
on the same machine. Just lost it on this reinstall.
The mouse also works fine in Mac OS9.1
Trying to run mouse config, xconfig or xconfigurator results in
"command not found." How do I get this back?
-ms
Depends on if you're running gpm (the console mouse driver) or not.
Do a "ps ax|grep gpm". If you see something like:
180 ? S 1:40 /usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/psaux -t imps2 -Rraw
32483 pts/0 S 0:00 grep gpm
then yes, you are running gpm. If you only see the "grep gpm" line,
then no, you are not running gpm.
If you are running gpm, make sure the mouse works properly in the
console (Ctrl-Alt-F1 and move the mouse). If it works, great. If
not, run "gpmconfig". The device should probably be /dev/psaux (or
/dev/ttyS0../dev/ttyS3 for a serial mouse), the protocol is probably
going to be "ps2" or "imps2" (for a standard wheel mouse), and the
repeat type should probably be "raw".
Once that's correct, or if you're not running gpm, edit the
/etc/X11/XF86Config[-4] file, and look for the mouse section. The
protocol should be the same as what you set for gpm, and the device
should either be what you'd set in gpm, but only if you're not
running gpm, or /dev/gpmdata, if you are running gpm.
gpm reads the mouse and repeats the data to the device /dev/gpmdata
so that both the console mouse and the X mouse work. If you don't
run gpm, you need to set X to use the actual device that gpm would
use if you were running gpm.
Clear as mud?
Uh, somewhat :)
after:
ps ax | grep gpm
I got
445 tty1 S 0:00 grep gpm
When I did
cd /etc/X11
ed XF86Config[-4]
I got no such file or directory.
?
-ms
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