Bill Barnes wrote: > > >===== Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===== > >On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 06:34:50 sido wrote: > >> > >> > >> I installed Debian Linux and everything works great except for X which > >> looks fine except the mouse doesn't move. I've re-installed the OS 3 > >> times now and searched for help on the mouse but not come up with much. I > >> tried to run mouseconfig but couldn't find it. > >> > >> The mouse is a 3-button mouse, manufacturer Digital. > >> > >> ls -l /dev/mouse > >> > >> /dev/mouse -> ttyS0 > >> > >> That doesn't seem right to me but I can't figure out how to change it > >> either. > > > >If the mouse is a serial mouse attached to the first serial port ttyS0 is > >correct. > > Try to find 'gpm-config'. > If you installed KDE it is at debian applications > apps > system > admin. > You can bring up the main KDE menu with Alt-F1 and cursor/return to the next > level menus. > > In every distro I've tried (Mandrake,SuSE,OpenBSD,etc) the installation has an > early screen that configures the mouse. Without exception, any attemp to > reset the mouse in XF86Setup kills it. > > Good luck, > Bill Barnes
Switch to a virtual console (Ctrl-Alt-F1, etc) and move the mouse and see if a square mouse pointer moves around on the screen. If so, that means that you have gpm running and it knows about your mouse. Look in /etc/gpm.conf for the details that you need to put into /etc/X11/XF886Config. If you don't have a working mouse in a text console, try running gpmconfig; it has a test mode that can attempt to autodetect your mouse. If neither of these works, my suspicion is that your mouse doesn't work with Linux, for whatever reason. Is it a serial mouse, or a bus mouse, or a PS/2 mouse, or some sort of other oddball mouse? If serial, are your serial ports working properly (CMOS, setserial)? If bus or PS/2, then the /dev/mouse link is wrong, and should be pointing to /dev/psaux for PX/2 (I'm not sure what you'd need for a bus mouse). You can "rm /dev/mouse", then "ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse" to create a new link.
