Re: No Mouse in X

["Cameron L. Spitzer" <cls@truffula.sj.ca.us>]

[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.]
In article <7TjVU-7ag-39@gated-at.bofh.it>, Dave Walker wrote:
> The Problem:
>
> When I run X (startx) from any user account, it begins, loads Gnome (just
> today downloaded it) but the mouse does not move. I found out that <Ctrl>
><Alt> <Backspace> quits X, thankfully, so I can return to the command line.
>
> My Analysis, such as it is:
>
> I have run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 many times to check the mouse
> settings, and everything looks fine. If I look at the file:
>
> /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 it shows two entries for "mouse" one after the other
> as below...........................

Are you installing Sarge 3.1 or Etch 4.0?
My mouse broke when I moved to Etch, and replaced
XFree86 with Xorg.
Solution was to install the "hal" and "xserver-xorg-input-mouse"
packages.


Cameron