At 09:37 AM 2/13/2004 +0530, joy wrote: [...]
Do you possibly have gdm (the mouse app for consoles) running? If so, kill it ... it often interferes with access to the mouse by X.
never used gdm..........
Sorry; that was a typo. I meant to write gpm (gdm is an X login manager, like xdm, and not what I meant to refer to).
Am I correct in assuming that you have a PS/2 mouse? It normally uses the /dev/psaux device ... I'm not sure if /dev/input/mouse also accesses this physical device. If you have a different type of mouse (serial, USB), please tell us what it is. All my earlier suggestions assume you are using a PS/2 mouse.
I have a USB mouse , but it used to work fine froom the same usb port before the reinstall.....
Do you mean it previously worked with Debian-Woody, or that it worked with Slackware? Or something else? Were you using a stock kernel or one you compiled? I don't use a USB mouse here, but I wouldn't count on a stock Debian kernel supporting one ... though someone else here, someone who uses a USB mouse with Debian, would be a better source of advice at this point.
I do have a PS/2 adapter for the mouse, but I really would like to know what went wrong before I chicken out and use that....
My immediate thought is that the Woody kernel you installed does not support USB mice. But I offer that as no more than a guess.
I haven't used a stock Linux kernel (aside from the early stage of an install) for years, so I don't recall what they include either compiled in or as modules ... both USB mouse support and Input Core mouse support appear to be available as modules, so modprobe'ing them (or adding them to /etc/modules) may be the prior fix you've forgotten. Just a guess, though, as I say.
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