Bug#213029: xserver-xfree86: upgrade switches from PS/2 to NetscrollPS/2 mouse

[Andre Lehovich <andrel@U.Arizona.EDU>]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Branden Robinson wrote:
> Well, I see from the debconf data in your initial report that your mouse
> is in fact configured to use protocol "PS/2".  Did you change that in
> the debconf database (e.g., by running dpkg-reconfigure) before filing
> the report?

Sort of.  I upgraded and edited the file by hand adding in
xfstt.  Then I rebooted, and discovered the mouse was wonky.
So I ran dpkg-reconfigure to fix the mouse.  But debconf
wouldn't write out the new config file, because it detected
the xfstt customization, so I set it to PS/2 by hand.

>   $ debconf-show xserver-xfree86 | grep protocol
>   debconf: DbDriver "passwords" warning: could not open /var/cache/debconf/passwords.dat: Permission denied
>     xserver-xfree86/config/inputdevice/mouse/protocol: ImPS/2

# debconf-show xserver-xfree86 | grep protocol
* xserver-xfree86/config/inputdevice/mouse/protocol: PS/2

> Then check to see what protocol actually got written to the file:
>
>   branden@tentacle:~$ grep -5i protocol /tmp/foo

# dexconf -o /tmp/foo
# grep -5i protocol /tmp/foo
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "CorePointer"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
        Option          "Protocol"              "PS/2"
        Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
        Option          "Protocol"              "ImPS/2"
        Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Device"


Do you have any other ideas on things to try?

Thanks,
--Andre