On Sun,05.Jul.09, 21:10:55, s. keeling wrote: > Canibalising my desktop for a ps/2 mouse, I replaced it with a serial > mouse. Now, X on desktop is seriously hosed. I've tried "dpkg- > reconfigure", but it never asks where the mouse is. What am I > missing? My crystal ball says you are using lenny... > I'll dig into backups to see what I need in xorg.conf, but I'd like to > understand what happened. Anything interesting in 'dmesg'? Did you reboot (or at least restart Xorg)? I'm not sure if serial mice are plug-and-play. > My (post-dpr) /etc/X11/xorg.conf: > Section "Files" You should get rid of the entire "Files" section. > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Configured Mouse" > Driver "mouse" > EndSection According to the manpage mousedrv the driver should support serial mice, but I'm reading the unstable version. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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