tried /dev/psaux and that made it worse, this was with I can't remember
which
window manager, it's the one that describes itself as NeXTStep like with
the
big debian squiggle wallpaper.
the system was booting straight into X so I couldn't get in to XF86Config to
change it back, so I reinstalled with twm (tab) and X config by anXious.
used
/dev/psaux as the device again, cos I _know_ the mouse is in the ps2, right?
anyway, it all worked fine. but i didn't like the look of twm so used
dselect to
put the other window manager back on, and lo and behold, the mouse doesn't
work
again, can't even open an xterm to edit XF86Config, another reinstall
looms...
also, when i installed with twm I didn't put xdm on cos I don't want to boot
straight to X, just in case it doesn't work. When i changed to
NeXTStep-like,
I'm sure i didn't ask for xdm but it seems to be on there anyway. Assuming I
can get the mouse working, can I run this very nice pretty and effective
window manager whose name I don't recall without xdm? i prefer to kick off
from terminal.
once again pls copy me with replies
-Original Message-
From: Klaus Stylianos Ade Johnstad
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 18 December 2000 14:49
To: Dominic Blythe
Subject: Re: mouse probs on 2.2 install
had/have a similar problem, my mouse switches between the
protocols ps and
microsoft, and it behaved the same way as yours. you just
have to choose
the right protocol. I use either microsoft and /dev/mose or ps2
and dev/psaux. was this of any help?
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Dominic Blythe wrote:
used the X configuration script to set up my ps/2 mouse as type 4
during install, and when X is running it stays at the bottom of the
screen and only moves from side to side. It works ok in
character mode.
previous installation of corel worked straight away, no problem.
The only difference is I'm now using a PC99 motherboard,
you know with
ps/2 mouse, ps/2 keyboard and usb sockets. In fact, corel
still ran the same
after I changed the m/board.
any help gratefully rec'd as I've been running on corel for
a long time
and finally found the guts to take on the scary debian
install process -
don't want one little glitch to send me back...
pls copy response 2 me as I can't cope with the list traffic
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