On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 03:57:12PM -0400, mmissett wrote: > Georg and Andy, > Alas, sorry to come back with bad news, and if you're > getting sick of this, I can't blame you, so am I. > Anyway, tried your suggestions with the following > results: > > >Probably you can try to create a character device by > >mknod /dev/input/mice c 13 63 > > This produced the answer: "mknod /dev/input/mice: > No such file or directory" > Now I know I was trying to *create* a file, but that > is the message I got. > > >If you have /dev/input/mice, you should configure your mouse with > >gpmconfig so that it works on console. > > It tells me: "gpmconfig: command not found" > locate gpmconfig gives me nothing > man gpmconfig gives me: "no manual entry for gpmconfig" > > Am I doing something wrong here, or missing a point?
you have to run gpmconfig as root, are you root? and, is it installed? apt-get install gpm goodluck, sisi > Again, sorry to come back with more negative news and if > you just want to forget about it, go ahead. I appreciate > all your help so far and may just reign myself to upgrading. > (If you do have ideas though, I would still be glad to hear > them.) Thanks again, > Mike > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
