Re: mouse

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Marlin Unruh wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just installed debian 3.0r1 and the mouse will not work. I have a serial
> track ball with a PS/2 adapter, and have it plugged into the PS/2 port. The
> track ball is a Kensington Expert Mouse.
>
> Do I need to edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file? If so what should I try for
> the settings?
>
> Device:
> Protocol:
>
> Is there a utility that would help configure the mouse.
>
> How do you open the menu without the mouse working, with hot keys?
>  

First, decide if you want the mouse to work in both X (the GUI system) 
and in the text-only (VT - Virtual Terminal) console, or if you just 
want it in X.

If both:
   install/configure gpm
      device=/dev/psaux
      protocol= probably ps2, but you may need to experiment
      repeat type=raw
   apt-get reconfigure xserver-xfree86
      device=/dev/gpmdata
      protocol=same as what you set above (or see /etc/gpm.conf)

If just X,
   apt-get reconfigure xserver-xfree86
      device=/dev/psaux
      protocol=probably ps2, but you may need to experiment

To get to where you can run these apps, shell out to a VT (Ctrl-Alt-F2 
should do it). You'll want to stop your session manager (assuming you 
have one, like kdm or gdm - /etc/init.d/kdm stop); and restart it after 
making these changes (/etc/init.d/kdm start).

Now your mouse hopefully works.

--
Kent