Re: Yet another mouse problem
Joe Carey wrote:
Hello,
I'm new to Debian, but I've fooled around with Red Hat & SuSE. I'm
pissed at RH for abandoning us low maintence users. I downloaded
Woody the other day and installed on a clean hard disk. The install
went okay, but I'm having trouble getting X to recognize my mouse,
which is a 3 button Logitech wheel mouse with a USB to PS/2 adapter on
it. In the past the Distros have taken care of this for me (and I
took it for granted).
I checked XF86Config-4 and the log files. There are no reported
errors in the log. I'm using /dev/psaux as the device, and if I cat
the device file, when I move the mouse I see interesting junk. I
tried using /dev/input/mice, but XFree86 gave an error for that. With
some device protocols, such as MicroSoft, the cursor will jump around
the top of the screen once X starts..
Depends on if you're using gpm (the console mouse driver) in addition to
the X mouse driver. You can search the Debian archives for the past
couple of months and probably find 5 or 6 threads that discuss this
issue, like these:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/debian-user-200402/msg04761.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200312/msg06536.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/debian-user-200403/msg00685.html
(Be aware that apparently "raw" is the wrong repeat type for gpm; it
should be "ms3"
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/debian-user-200403/msg00887.html
/dev/psaux is almost certainly the correct device (IF you're not use
gpm), since you get stuff when you cat the device and move the mouse.
The device works fine under MS, and I get similar results with other
3-button PS-2 mice.
Does Debian have any sort of tool that can probe the hardware and tell
me what the XF86Config for this device should look like?
I've spent several hours messing around with it and checking the web,
and I feel I'm getting nowhere.
Some people have mentioned Sarge installs better than Woody. Since
I've got very little invested to now, how would I go about installing
Sarge?
joe
Upgrading's not likely to fix this particular problem. Still . . .
Assuming you have network access, edit /etc/apt/sources.list so that
you're pointing to testing (personally, unless this is a server that
needs rock-hard stability, I'd go with unstable), like so (only for
Sarge, you'd change the "unstable"s to "testing"s):
westk[@westk03]:/home/westk> cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib
non-free
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main
contrib non-free
#deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
#deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main
contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free
Then two commands:
#apt-get update
#apt-get dist-upgrade
Bing! You're done.
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