Hello All, I am new to Linux and of course new to the Debian distribution.
Recently I tried to install X on my box using the vga16 server. When started, the server immediately die with a message "Cannot open mouse : (no such device). Because X is a rather complex package, I tried to troubleshoot my mouse problem using gpm. The result was the same as with X, now the message is gpm : /dev/psmouse : No shuch device. Because psmouse is a symbolic link a also tried psaux and because it still didn't work, I even tried /dev/msmouse and /dev/inportbm (in fact this is a non-sense because my mouse is a PS-2 style). The problem is not the mouse hardware, because under Windows95, the same mouse on the same PC work ok. It is discovered as a PS/2 compatible mouse using interrupt 12. The computer is a Gateway 2000 P100. I think they use an Intel Alladin mother-board, but I am not completly sure. The mouse is a Microsoft "Mouse Port Compatible 2.0" I had also a look at /proc/devices and I didn't find any mouse device there. Also /proc/interrupts do not show any entry for interrupt 12. Finally I found that every time a started X or gpm, I got an entry in daemon.log : "modprobe : can't locate module char-major-10 So it seems that I need to load a module for my mouse. In /usr/lib/module_help/modules I found that modules should exist for psaux and mouse, however I didn't find any psaux.o or mouse.o on my system. Now I am stuck. I only see two possibilities : 1)I really need to load psaux.o and mouse.o; but where can I found those files? 2)The mouse driver is build in the kernel and for some reason the mouse is not detected at boot-up. How can I force the mouse configuration? I have really no idea which of those two possibilities is correct. As I am new to Linux maybe I made a stupid mistake. All the software was loaded from the stable subtree of the distribution. Kernel is 2.0.6. Any help would be appraciated. Thanks, Andre Dewevre Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
