Re: Ready to join the club..

[John Schmidt <john.schmidt@utah.edu>]

On Friday 21 October 2005 08:58 pm, Greg wrote:
> Actually, I did a Google.  I ran tasksel as root and loaded the files
> for the dektop.  I answered several questions during the process.
> However, I still can't load the desktop.  I get the following error
> message
>
> (EE) ef860penSerial I cannot open device /dev/input/mouse
> (EE) ConfiguredMouse: Cannot open input device
> (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Configured Mouse"
>
> Although I'm a noob, I can surmise that I've got a problem with my
> mouse.  How to fix?  The mouse is a serial mouse with 6 male pins in
> the connector and 6 female receptors in the back of the PC.  The mouse
> is a MS 2 button + scroll wheel.
>
> Any help you can provide would be great.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Greg

Greg,

Run this command as root:

apt-get install mdetect

This will install a program that will help detect and setup your mouse in X 
windows.

Then run this command as root:

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

This will then try reconfiguring the desktop and should do the mouse detection 
step again.

John Schmidt