* Billy Bump (bbump@centurytel.net) [021021 12:28]: > I have just completed installing debian3.0 on my laptop. The touchpad does > not work so i use a microsoft usb trackball. this trackball worked in my > previous linux mandrake install. When i try to startx it fails and most of > the error messages are about the mouse not being present. anybody have any > ideas? What kind of laptop is it? Is there something physically wrong with the touchpad, or do you mean you just haven't been able to get X configured to use it? Have you tried the GlidePointPS/2 driver? Where is the trackball plugged in? I'm guessing the ps/2 port. Where does X look for the mouse? It should probably be /dev/psaux . Are you running gpm? So there are some ideas =) good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." -- Barry Goldwater
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