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Re: Speaking of strange problems...



Jeremy Cheng wrote:

Also, the mouse is not
properly working in X either.  All I get is a black box in place of the
pointer and some error messages about detecting the mouse. I am wondering
if it has to do with the motherboards mouse and keyboard ps/2 ports.  I am
also wondering if upgrading the kernel will do anything.  Anything to fix
it rather than re-installing cause I can't afford to do that. Any advice?
Thanks in advance!  =)

You could play around in /etc/XF86Config-4. Some graphics chips need
  Option	"hw_cursor"
in the "Device" section in order to draw the cursor correctly. Others need "sw_cursor", though... If the mouse is not moving at all, play around in the (guess what!) "Mouse" section. Try using PS/2 or IMPS/2 ad protocol, be sure to use /dev/psaux as mouse device, etc.
man xf86config-4 will help you with possible options.

hth

joerg



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