have you run gpmconfig recently? That'd be the first step... On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Mithras wrote:
> 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 > > > > -- Pardon me, but you have obviously mistaken me for someone who gives a damn. email [EMAIL PROTECTED]