Excuse me if this question is really basic. After installing Debian for the first time (but not Linux), I discovered the mouse wasn't working.
It didn't move at all at first, and I found last night that /dev/mouse was just symlinked to some weird device, but not ttyS0 like it should (for my 3-button Logitech mouse). When I started X, however, the mouse moved only in occasionally sudden leaps to the left & downward, while also sending imaginary mouse clicks (pop-up menus appeared). Could I have chosen the wrong mouse device to link to? I've heard that GNOME can be sluggish, but this doesn't appear to be a system grinding along (other symptoms, like hard drive activity, or slow screen draws, are not evident). (My cpu is an AMD K6 233, with 80M.) I cleaned the mouse wheels, so it couldn't be that either. Note: I did notice an X error on the console about accessing the mouse after I quit last night, but alas I don't have that message written down. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Besides this mouse problem, I'd just like to say how *pleased* I've been with Debian. The default X environment (what I've been able to see of it) and Xdm are gorgeous, and when I discovered that xdm & my mouse problem conspired to keep me from a console or xterm prompt, I really appreciated finding the shell prompt available from the boot CD. My past experience has been with old Red Hat & Slackware distributions, which simply didn't look as *pretty* as Debian. (Trivial perhaps, but it is somehow satisfying when your favorite operating system doesn't look like a sow's ear.) Thanks in advance, ben taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://www.dhp.com/~mithras 716-586-0020 work, 716-256-2484 home, 716-233-3159 cell 174 Henrietta St. #2 / Rochester, NY 14620
