There is not support for busmice in the standard boot disk kernel. Try # dmesg | grep -i mouse to see if your mouse was detected by the installed kernel.
You will probably get no output, so you can confirm that the kernel does not know about your mouse. Otherwise you should see the line recognizing the bus mouse. Solution: You will have to recompile the kernel (download the kernel-source_2.0.6.....deb, etc, etc.) If you have installed the linuxdoc package (check the name as my memory may not serve here) then try to look at the Busmouse howto (in Debian the doc is under /usr/doc/... ). A last word... yes. it takes times to known any new OS... and since Linux + Debian are moving targets, that's the price you pay. cheers, lazaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Mouse Author: debian-user@lists.debian.org at cclink Date: 17.09.96 05:25 Hi, I've just installed the X11 distribution (xbase, xserver-s3 and xfntbase). When I try startx it comes back with "no mouse found" or a message to that effect. I am using a Dell P120t with a bus mouse connected to the on board interface. I see quit a few "mouse" devices in /dev. Which one is active? How can I extract this information without having to turn to the experts? A minor observation on the Web sites I have looked at so far with respect Linux and Debian. From my point of view as a UNIX user, DOS/Windows/Embedded programmer there is very little on-line information available that I can make sense of. Probably in 6 months time I'll understand about half of it.... Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places, maybe the philosophy is only those who know can learn, maybe I don't have the right IQ, but the fact is that up till now I have come up to a brick wall. The information available in the HOWTOs is very good, but from an initial startup point of view, if things go wrong I need to browse through a couple of MB of data, not very productive. As I said, maybe I'm looking in the wrong places, please any advice that may be advantageous. "Simon Martin"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Old software engineers never die, they just fail to boot" Any Trademarks used in this document are recognized as Registered Trademarks of their respective owners.
