Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> I finally decided to upgrade my Alphastation from Debian Woody to
> Sarge. The running upgrade procedure as described in the Release
> Notes failed part-way along with some interesting anomalies. Like my
> 9GB disk drives were suddenly seen as 100TB. Too bad ithat can't be
> real.
>
> So a complete new installation from CDroms. To one disk drive,
> leaving the other two untouched. All worked well, eventually I found
> everything that I had to "aptitude install" to make X begin to work.
> I have this beautiful display with a little X cursor in the middle of
> it, and no way to move the cursor.
>
> Of course, the mouse had been working only a couple of hours
> previously. Doing some Google reading, I find that with kernel 2.6
> the mouse kernel connection seems to have been changed from /dev/psaux
> to /dev/input/mice. So my newly made XF86Config-4 file has an
> "InputDevice" section
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Configured Mouse"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
>
> The previous incarnation had "/dev/psaux" and "PS/2" for "Device" and
> "Protocol" respectively. I also note that Sarge is still XFree86
> while Etch uses Xorg.
>
> I have tried all 4 combinations {input/mice,psaux} {ImPS/2,PS/2} in
> this file, with the same no mouse attachment symptoms.
>
> What to try next? Downgrade to a 2.4 kernel? But one of my major
> objectives for this upgrade was to use some of the advanced features
> of the 2.6 kernel.
Do you suppose there might be any value in trying text mode gpm to see
if that works, writes error to syslog, or gives some other clue?
My gpm startup command is
gpm -m /dv/input/mice -t exps2
My xorg.conf has
..
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
..
like yours, I guess.
Remarks,
..jim
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