Simon Lang wrote:
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
What is defined in the mouse section of your /etc/X11/XF86Config file?
For now, I'd disable gpm; once you have the mouse working in X you can
go back and re-enable gpm and then tweak them so that they both work.
Withoug gpm running, your mouse section should probably look something like:
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Kent
