RE: New install->Broken X->modprobe mousedev->now X Works, but no mouse
Thanks for the reply.
It's a standard PS/2 mouse with a scroll wheel.
The mouse works fine under Windows XP(dual boot system) and when I cat
/dev/input/mice and move the mouse, I get the random characters. The
system is a cheapo MicroCenter PowerSpec, but I've had it running Linux
and X successfully in the past. As a matter of fact, I installed Ubuntu
on it the other day just to see if everything worked under Ubuntu and it
did. X and the mouse worked fine.
Very frustrating how much trouble I've been having with this.
Any other ideas.
Ed
-----Original Message-----
From: Juergen Fiedler [mailto:juergen@fiedlerfamily.net]
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 3:06 PM
To: Ed Young
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: New install->Broken X->modprobe mousedev->now X Works, but
no mouse
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 02:31:40PM -0700, Ed Young wrote:
>
> I did a new install of Debian 3.1r1 and X failed out with a
> /dev/input/mice no device found error.
>
> I issued modprobe mousedev and then startx got x running, but the
> mouse still doesn't work. I added mousedev to /etc/modules and now
> when I reboot, X starts but still no mouse.
>
> I've run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 and experimented with
> various mouse configs but still no mouse.
Do you get anything interesting when you type 'cat /dev/input/mice' and
wiggle the mouse? You should get a stream of random characters - if not,
your problem is not with X but with the mouse. What type of mouse is it,
anyway?
--j
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