On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 14:26, Michel Loos wrote: > On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 12:26, Roland Wegmann wrote: > > > > I have a curious mouse problem! When I start debian, the system recognizes > > my mouse (MS Wheel Mouse Optical USB) first. After kdm is launched, > > sometimes my mouse is inactive sometimes it works. > > In the former case I have to reboot the system (sometimes several times), > > but then the mouse works under KDE 2.1.1, too. Under X-Window the mouse was > > active in any case. > > > > Probably a problem with gpm: just desactivate gpm > > /etc/init.d/gpm stop > > and remove it from your startup since it seems you don t use the > console. > > /usr/bin/update-rc.d -f gpm remove
If you don't want to use gpm, just apt-get remove it. However, it really shouldn't hurt so long as you use /dev/input/mice for the mouse. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
