On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:18:58PM +0200, Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
> Suddenly and without prior warning[*], my thinkpad's internel mouse became
> unavailable to Linux.
>
> I'm running RH8, and kudzu fails to detect the mouse. Sadly, I see nothing
> interesting in the logs. Any idea why did this happen?
>
> I keep a standanlone mouse detection program on my laptop (it's called WinXP)
> and it works fine, so this is not a hardware problem.
>
> Any idea how can I get to the bottom of this?
You can try something like
od -tx1 /dev/psaux
and
1. See if it can open the device (if not, you either have no kernel
driver or the driver did not identify the hardware)
2. Move your mouse and see if you get output
If it works, it's a problem in the configuration of X, not Linux.
Didi
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan.
>
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