On 8 May, Brent Metzler wrote: > I noticed no one else replied to this, so I'll give it a stab. > > I had a similar problem with the mouse. The problem seemed to be caused by > running > gpm, the command-line mouse proggie, before X. This apparently causes > conflicts that > X cannot handle. when I killed gpm, the mouse seemed to work fine in X. >
I wish you were right, but alas, you are not. I'm stuck in the exact same problem as what Jeffrey Brock wrote below for my laptop. This is a SuSE installation with the 2.2.5 kernel. The problem goes away when I install the optional alternative kernel, 2.0.36. This is a temporarily acceptible solution to me. I usually have gpm set up as a repeater and X using the repeater device, however, gpm can't start either. An strace of 'cat /dev/psaux' gives me the same errors about not being able to open the device, and /var/log/messages reveals that the kernels wants (and fails) to load a module for char-major-10-1 (which is /dev/psaux). Any help would be greatly appreciated. --Tim :-) > -Brent > > Jeffrey Brock wrote: > >> When I start X, it fails with the message: >> >> Fatal Server Error: >> Cannot open mouse (Operation not supported by device) >> >> It's a PS/2 mouse, and it gets detected by the motherboard on bootup. >> >> XF86Config has "PS/2" for Protocol and "/dev/psaux" for Device >> >> Amy idea what is going on? >> >> I've run XF86Setup, and tried using the microsoft protocol etc, to no avail. >> I've tried a mouse, with the same result. >> >> Thanks for any help, >> >> Jeff Brock >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> -- >> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
