Re: New Debian 3.1 Installation, GDM no keyboard no mouse

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

On (23/06/05 18:28), Christoph Simon wrote:
> I just installed debian 3.1 and chose to setup a desktop
> environment. Everything seemd to go smooth until GDM showed up and
> neither the keyboard nor the mouse would work. The keyboard does work
> in text mode. In case of the mouse, complains about /dev/input/mice
> not being a valid device. The mouse did work on another computer. This
> was a clean installation on a formatted drive. mdetect does not detect
> any mouse. But even if I missed the mouse protocol, the keyboard
> should work, right? I googled for this problem but didn't find
> anything related to GDM, only with KDE but with no solution. As this
> also happens with startx, I assume it's a problem with X. Any hints?
> 
> Thanks,

Can you post your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file?  .... or at least have a
look at the Keyboard/Mouse entries.  Mine look like this:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "keyboard"
        Option          "CoreKeyboard"
        Option          "XkbRules" 		"xfree86"
        Option          "XkbModel" 		"pc105"
	Option 		"XkbLayout"     	"gb"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier 	"Configured Mouse"
        Driver		"mouse"
        Option 		"CorePointer"
	Option 		"Device" 		"/dev/gpmdata" 
	Option 		"Protocol" 		"IntelliMouse" 
	Option 		"Emulate3Buttons" 	"true" 
	Option 		"ZAxisMapping" 		"4 5" 
EndSection



Regards

Clive

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