On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 04:45:00PM -0700, Andre Lehovich wrote: > On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Unfortunately, I can't see any evidence that dexconf tried to set your > > mouse protocol to NetScrollPS/2. > > > > In fact, I can't find any evidence, even in your original report, that > > either mouse device was ever described as using the NetScrollPS/2 > > protocol. On what basis did you come to believe it had? > > After I upgraded and rebooted the mouse stopped working. When I > switched to another virtual console and diffed the XF86Config-4 file > with the backup I saw the PS/2 had been switched to NetScrollPS/2. I > configured it back to PS/2 and that fixed things. I just assumed it > was dexconf that switched it, since I hadn't done it. Well, that's the mostly likely possibility, but unfortunately we have no trail of evidence. I cannot determine from what you told me when or how the debconf database got changed so as to think you had a NetScrollPS/2 mouse. > Does dexconf or something else know how to probe the mouse to find out > what it is? There is a tool called "mdetect" (in a package of the same name) that is used by the xserver-xfree86 configuration script for this purpose. > Under 2.6.0-testX having the mouse set at PS/2 worked fine, even with > the wheel. But I switched back to 2.4.22 today, and the wheel stopped > working until I changed the config to ImPS/2. I've only had the "new" > mouse about a month, it was being thrown out at work, so this is the > first time I've used it under 2.4. This makes me think the 2.6 > kernels handle mice somewhat differently than the 2.4 kernels. > Probably an entirely unrelated issue. Well, if the problem comes and goes depending on which version of the kernel is running, yes, I'd be tempted to blame it on the kernel. :) > Thanks for your help on this. Unfortunately, I'm afraid I can't be of much more help on this question. I don't have a good theory on how your mouse configuration got changed and, as I said, there's no evidence trail to follow. -- G. Branden Robinson | The noble soul has reverence for Debian GNU/Linux | itself. branden@debian.org | -- Friedrich Nietzsche http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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