On 07/10/11 21:41, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Brian wrote: > >> sed in X. What the status of dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg is >> these days I do not know but I thought it either wasn't needed or didn't >> do anything useful. >> >> If you have /etc/X11/xorg.conf, move it out of the way and restart X or >> reboot. > > nowadays, dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg doesn't create any > xorg.conf, just the directory /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d > and yes, it was useless to run it. > > I tried to play with an old xorg.conf file, but anything I do, including > removing the file, doesn't solve the problem. > > best regards, Lack of an /etc/X11/xorg.conf shouldn't cause a problem... but udev might not be picking one up (though I don't understand how a power failure would kill that, but allow gpm to function).
What happens if you open a console and move your mouse after:- # cat /dev/input/mouse0 ?? And, have you checked /var/log/Xorg.0.log $ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i mouse ?? Cheers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
