On Wed, 3 Jan 2001 15:31:58 -0500 (EST) Mithras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Excuse me if this question is really basic. > > After installing Debian for the first time (but not Linux), I > discovered the mouse wasn't working. > > It didn't move at all at first, and I found last night that /dev/mouse > was just symlinked to some weird device, but not ttyS0 like it should > (for my 3-button Logitech mouse). When I started X, however, the > mouse moved only in occasionally sudden leaps to the left & downward, > while also sending imaginary mouse clicks (pop-up menus appeared). > > Could I have chosen the wrong mouse device to link to? I've heard > that GNOME can be sluggish, but this doesn't appear to be a system > grinding along (other symptoms, like hard drive activity, or slow > screen draws, are not evident). (My cpu is an AMD K6 233, with 80M.) > I cleaned the mouse wheels, so it couldn't be that either. > > Note: I did notice an X error on the console about accessing the mouse > after I quit last night, but alas I don't have that message written down. > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. I experimented the same symtoms. Then I found out, that it works fine if you hold down the left mouse button before the mouse receives energy from the computer. You can do this during a reboot, or you can plug out the mouse, hold down the left button with one hand, and try with the other to fiddle with the connector to plug it in again; then you may release the button. (try guessing this one :-). As a matter of fact, if I switch from X to tty mode, and come back, I usually loose the mouse and have to repeat this acrobacy. Fortunately I don't switch very often. I found other references in the net suggesting among other thing to gamble with the DTR, but I lost... -- Christoph Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ^X^C q quit :q ^C end x exit ZZ ^D ? help shit .
