> Hi: > > I have a couple of problems and I would like to get an opinion from those > who might have an insite into these issues. > > I recently installed Debian 2.1 on my system. I have had Debian 2.0 > previously and wsa very happy with it but i decided to do a fresh install. > The installation went well (better than 2.0) but I ran into a problem that > I am not familiar with - my mouse. I have a Microsoft mouse that plugs into > my PS2 port (the one that has a S-Video jack). When I ran xf86config, I > selected the /dev/psaux as my mouse interface device and I know that this > worked because I can see the mouse when I am in the text mode console (I > can see the mouse as a block in text mode and > it works well). Now when I start mt X server, I have no control of my mouse > - I > can see it but it is very sensitive that I cannot move it around the normal > way. It always gets stuck at the upper right hand corner and I have to move > the pointer with my keyboard keys. Has anyone experienced any such thing? > (I have a Matrox Millenium II AGP video card - not that it should matter).
Two things come to mind - 1) a messed up mouse resolution, or simpler still 2) the fact that gpm (the text-mode mouse input daemon) was set up for an intellimouse and X was set up with a regular PS/2 (instead of IMPS/2), or vice versa -- the exact problem I had when I tried to get DOSEMU to work under console w/ PS/2 mouse support while at the same time having X set up to work with the Intelli. Check both configs -- what does /etc/gpm.conf and the "Pointer" section of /etc/X11/XF86Config say? > My second questions (a simple one I presume) is concerning xdm. How do I > turn it on and off? As root, /etc/init.d/xdm stop; /etc/init.d/xdm start. If you don't want xdm to automatically start upon bootup, remove the "S99xdm" sym. links from /etc/rc?.d. Hope that helps, Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
