/etc/gpm.conf: devvice /dev/input/mice
i'm not in my debian box right now. On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > Has anyone managed to get a USB mouse working on a Powerbook G4 > on the console? > > If yes: How did you do it? > > I have here a Logitech optical wheel mouse, and nothing so far > seems to get it running on the console. > > Output in /var/log/syslog says (as it seems for disconnecting and then > reconnecting the mouse to the USB connector): > > ---------------------- > Jun 21 18:48:51 debby kernel: usb.c: USB disconnect on device 2 > Jun 21 18:48:58 debby kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, > assigned device number 3 > Jun 21 18:48:58 debby kernel: input4: Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse on > usb1:3.0 > ----------------------- > > gpm 1.19.6-12 is installed > > gpmconfig says: > -------------------- > Device: /dev/gpmdata > Type: imps2 > Repeat_Type: raw > -------------------- > > I *think* I had it connected to /dev/psaux before, but I'm not sure of > that ... > So far, none of the settings I tried got the mouse up and running > > Strange: > > At the end of gpmconfig I'm told by this routine that the > mouse interface server : gpm > is first stopped, then started, but all this without any error message. > > (Just once, IIRC, it said it could not see a gpm.pid (?) in some > directory, or something like that) > > But when I do a > ps -C gpm > > all I get is > -------------------------- > PID TTY TIME CMD > -------------------------- > > > Or, as another possibility to solve this: > > Is the Debian-Version I'm running -- 3.0 r1, stable -- so broken, > incomplete, or whatever, that it will make sense to upgrade to testing? > > After all there are more things here that do not work. > > Could be very well that all this and other mess here is due to my lack of > experience with Debian ... but if the stuff is simply buggy then please > someone let me know ... > > Thanks in anticipation. > > Best Regards, > Wolfgang Pfeiffer >
