On 3/6/07, Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote:
Dave Walker wrote: > In summary, my problem was that X would load but the mouse would be > frozen on the screen. > > Bingo, Andrew - your suggestion that there might be interference by > another utility (maybe gpm) causing the problem proved to be the > case..... > > I issued the command: killall gpm > > and then : startx > > and I now have a working gnome desktop. > You can keep gpm if you want by telling it to repeat data as ms3 and then configure the mouse in X to be on /dev/gpmdata. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
================================================ Got the mouse to work as desired using a bit of advice from here and there (mostly here!) - thanks everyone..... This what I did to make the mouse behave in X............. - located my gpm.conf in directory /etc/ - edited to confirm/change the following lines: device=/dev/psaux/ (was already there) repeat_type=raw (changed to this) type=ps2 (ditto) - then edited my X configuration file in the mouse device section: /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /dev/psaux ===========> /dev/gpmdata This had to be done logged on as root. Note: I needed to re-boot to make the changes take effect. Just logging out and in again didn't make the changes take effect. Thanks again to the group Dave W.