Hi. I'm experiencing technical difficulties, if you can help I'll love you forever...
I'm running what was CorelOS, pretty much converted to woody (remove all the packages with "corel" in them, edit sources.list, then apt-get update && apt-get upgrade). My mouse doesn't work in X, much as if I had the wrong argument to Protocol in 'Section "Pointer"' of XF86Config. Odd thing is, 24 hours ago it worked fine. It stopped when I was apt-get install'ing things left and right [1], so I'm not sure what triggered it. (it stopped working right after I installed ssh. Hm.) In XF86Config, the Protocol and Device for the pointer (mouse) were "PS/2" and "/dev/mouse" (/dev/mouse isa symlink to /dev/psaux). In the console, gpm still works fine, and it has the equivalent settings in its config file (/etc/gpm.conf; device=/dev/psaux, type=ps2). I have a very normal, 3-button, contemporary-model Logitech mouse, with a PS/2 connector. In XF86Config, I tried changing the Protocol to (almost) everything listed in man XF86Config; and changing the Device to /dev/psaux and /dev/ttyS[0123]. In short, I tried every suggestion I found in the archives in debian-user and my head. No avail. I did find that changing Device to be "/dev/gpmdata" and Protocol to Microsoft, MouseMan, or MouseSystems, it worked fine except my mouse's middle button didn't work. I use this button a lot. I can Emulate3Buttons, but it's not the same. btw, this seems independent of WM (tested with twm; and enlightenment, both with and without gpm). Thanks in advance. Aaron [1] CorelOS is OK, except for the packages it's missing on the distro CD. Didn't even have emacs, for chrissakes...