On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 08:36:24PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
MRH(misiek_spam@o2.pl) is reported to have said:
Hi,
I have a problem after I apt-upgraded Debian Sid a couple of days ago. It
seems that some xserver-xorg-* or hal* packages broke my mouse in X. The
result is I have no working mouse in X - it displays cursor, that's it. I
managed to operate the mouse with keyboard 'emulation', but it's very
inconvenient. I got the latest today - still no change.
I'm sure the mouse is OK - it works on other PCs. This is USB mouse; and
it's configured both as evdev and /dev/mice (the reason for the double
config is that the mouse is connected through a KVM, but it worked before;
moreover I tried also 'standard' config with /dev/mice only - still doesn't
work). When I switch to console as root and do
# cat /dev/mice
I receive lots of 'garbage' when I move the mouse - so the system sees it.
I removed xserver-xorg-input-evdev temporarily as it messed my keyboard;
but I still have problems with the mouse.
May I get some help - what can I do? Or should I wait for some update which
eventually fixes the problem?
No relief here, your running sid, so all you can do is wait.
I have the same problem here on lenny. Gpm & libgpmg1 both at version
1.19.6-25. Upgraded this morning.
If you're running sid, you really should do two things:
aptitude install apt-listbugs
and watch this list closely before you upgrade. I try to upgrade every
day, but never before skimming the list. I love all you poor saps
running a timezone a few hours ahead of mine ;-) Saved me from a
disastrous upgrade on more than one occaision.