hello jay... 2002-07-30/09h, when Jay wrote: > > I have one of those old Sharp Mebius (Pentium I, I belive). > > So I'm installing debian and anXious comes in and asks me about what kind of > mouse do I have, so I told debian that I have a PS/2, but I don't think it > worked, I ran startx and all of a sudden the monitor seemed like it "melted" > somehow, at the end it said "Mouse type not supported". How can I configure > it? HELP! It's those square things below the keys where you move your finger > around the surface in order to move the mouse. What kind of mouse is it?
usually a touchpad (seems to be one, following your description) works as a ps/2-device. i dunno anything about your laptop, though. you could try to run "/usr/bin/X11/xf86cfg" as root on the command-line. this starts a graphical tool to configure X and you could play around with the mouse-settings. normally the mouse is recognized by xf86cfg automatically. write down your working mouse-settings and quit xf86cfg without saving. to be in debian-style you should fire up "/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" afterwards and configure and save your new mouse-settings there. if you cannot configure your mouse as needed, you should tell dpkg-reconfigure not to take care of the package xserver-xfree86 anymore (it is the first question you get asked when running the aforementioned command) and configure X by xf86cfg. hth, myster sen
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