At 18:49 Uhr -0400 18.04.2002, matthew frederick davis h. wrote:
Hello List.Okay -- I have managed to get an old world machine to boot directly into Debian with quik. Yes, I did manage to find a mouse mode that made my mouse move around the screen (imps2)... But now: X won't start up at all. The screen goes grey for a moment and then kicks me back to the prompt, giving me the now familiar whine "Fatal server error: Cannot open mouse (Is a directory)". I've configured gpm to use /dev/input/mice as my driver. I can also make my mouse move with /dev/input/mouse0 (though X still won't start), but none of the other drivers works for my single-button ADB mouse.
It's probably much too late, but: it's not enough to configure gpm, gpm runs independantly from X. You *can* set up gpm to repeat the input to a fifo file like /dev/gpmdata and let X pick it up from there, but the better method is to configure X (/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (XFree4, excerpt shown below) or /etc/X11/XF86Config) to directly read mouse data from /dev/input/mice as well (there seems to be no problem having both gpm and X reading from there at the same time). (I would upgrade to woody as well, not sure if I ever had mouse/X running under potato.)
Option Device "/dev/input/mice" Option Protocol "ImPS/2". Option ZAxisMapping "4 5" The last line is so that mouse wheels work. Chj. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
