[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, all. > > I just installed Debian 2.2r2 over my old mandrake 7.2 installation > (all partitions other than /home formatted) Everything went well, except X. > At first, I couldn't start X because it couldn't find my mouse. Turns out it > was looking for /dev/mouse, which does not exist, so I changed that to > /dev/ttyS0. Now I can start X, and the mouse works, but there is no cursor! > I can bring up menus in WindowMaker, and if I left-click and drag on the > desktop (group - select style), I get a block which looks like a bar code on > a cereal box. After clicking on anything, the "UPC code" disappears again. > When there is no cursor displayed, I can manipulate menus, etc, although it > is very difficult without any visual feedback to tell me where I'm pointing. > Almost all the buttons on my mouse work, except the scroll button, which > didn't work in mandrake either, so I expected that. The mouse is a Logitech > TrackMan Marble FX, PS-2 version, with a PS-2 to serial adapter, connected to! ttyS0. > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Probably the video card you have has a buggy driver for Xfree. there is a pretty easy workaround for it. edit /etc/X11/XF86Config and put this in there Option "sw_cursor" I *believe* that goes in the "Device" section. its been a good 10 months since i've had to do this(only had to do it on S3 cards). after that restart X. i reccomend you not having a display manager running while doing this incase the configuration is wrong the display manager may get caught in an endless loop.(if you start X via 'startx' then chances are there is no display manager) that should put a real cursor on your screen. good luck. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
