I had this same thing happening to me. The problem seems to be some kind of conflict with gpm (the terminal mouse package). I found that if I turned stopped gpm my mouse worked fine in X.
To stop gpm I switch to a virtual consol via Ctrl^ Alt^ F1, logged in and issued the comand killall gpm. Not a great solution, I suppose if you don't need gpm package, uninstalling it would also resolve the problem. Gabe Lamarche [EMAIL PROTECTED] PETER WROTE: Greetings all, I just installed my first copy of Linux. Problem: X starts fine. I can use ALT key combinations to get a pop up menu and select menu items. However, I can't use my mouse. That is, neither clicking nor moving the mouse has any effect. What I did: I confirmed that my mouse is, in fact, PS/2. I confirmed that my mouse is connected to the correct port. I boot Linux. I login-ed as root. I ran 'xf86config' and selected 'PS/2' as my mouse. I started X. Mouse doesn't work. :-( What I checked: A coworker helping me checked the boot log with 'dmesg'. We found a line that says "Detected PS/2 Mouse Port". Sound like good news... We checked to see if the XF86Config file was written write. Sure enough, the mouse is PS/2. This looks good too... My plea: I don't know what the heck is going on here. What could be wrong? Can someone please help? If I've commited any Netiquette rudeness or some such, I apologize in advance. I'm new to this! :-) I think I've described the problem in sufficient detail; however, if I've left some important information out, then please tell me. I'll be more than happy to respond. Thanks, Peter __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
