I am faced with a conundrum.
I am running a new inst of Debian and have discovered my mouse will not work
properly. The main problem with the mous is the fact that the pointer does
not show up on the screen properly. The pointer is limited to a space of
1/4cm strip along the botton of the screen and responds erratically to any
movement of the mouse. The buttons on the mouse do work however (if you can
manage to click on anything).
I have used the mouse succesfully on redhat 7.0 on the same box and win98
also has no problems but no matter what i do on debian it refuses to give me
a break. The PS/2 mouse is a standard generic brand with two buttons and
nothing else. I have tried using the mouse on different window viewer
thingys like gonme, blackbox and fwm all with the same results.
I have tried disabling gpm and using different settings on gpm short of
using a different mouse, the mouse does however word on the console using
gpm alone with no adverse affects but one the server is started goe bung
again butafter leaving X the mouse still continues to work on the console
?!? I've searched the mans, infos and HOWTOs with no results. I've also
tried installing only enough packages to run the server and mouse in case
other packages are causing the interference. I'm fairly sure this is some
kind of software problem as i mentioned before the mouse works on everything
else but Debian.
please help? i really want to use Debian and i've been stuck on this for the
last couple of days and any help is good help
Simon
ps. i've been using Debian 2.2r2 with X11_SVGA server
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