William Bradley wrote:
On Monday 25 August 2003 10:06 am, Kent West wrote:I'd recommend getting the mouse to work with gpm first, as it's simpler to diagnose. So, first "apt-get install gpm". As part of the install, that'll run "gpmconfig", and you'll need to specify the mouse location to be "/dev/psaux", the type to be "imps2", and the repeat type to be "raw" (assuming you keep gpm, so it'll repeat the raw data to the X mouse driver, which will also entail configuring X to look to "/dev/gpmdata" instead of "/dev/psaux").Hello Kent,I was just about to remove Debian. I have been trying to get this off the shelf PS/2 wheel mouse working for five days. Your suggestion was a new direction, so I made a completely new install and tried it. The answer was still the same. The arrow sits in the middle of the screen immobile.
Sorry; I guess I didn't make myself clear. Forget completely about X for now; in fact, you might want to even disable the graphical login screen (add "exit 0" as the first non-comment line in the appropriate script: /etc/init.d/gdm or kdm or xdm or wdm and then reboot). Get the mouse working in the non-X console first via gpm. Once that's working, then you can worry about X.
If I remember correctly, you said this mouse works fine in Windows on the same box. I guess that means the mouse has not been unplugged/replugged, with the attendant possibilities of broken/bent pins, bad connection, etc?
In the text console, using gpm, you should see a white rectangle as your mouse pointer. It should function just as a pointer should, only it'll be rectangular instead of pointy. Do not try to configure gpm from within X! Get out of X completely to do this. Kill X. Exit X. Do not start X. Forget X. Ex X.
Let us know what the result of that is and we'll go from there. -- Kent