RE: x startup

["Billy Bump" <bbump@centurytel.net>]

The laptop is a gateway 2300 p200 with neomagic video card and tft display
and a  4.1 gb harddrive.  The touch pad does not work at all i have been
working to fix it but is broken now.
 the trackball is pu=luged into the usb port and the system looks to
/dev/gmpdata and i guess yes to the gmp question i'm not sure

-----Original Message-----
From: Vineet Kumar [mailto:debian-user@virtual.doorstop.net]
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 2:32 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: x startup


* 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
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