lmyho wrote:
Hi Kent, Thank you!!
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The installation automatically installed Grub, so I am using it, and I
tried the Safe Recovery login, which worked fine, but I couldn't find
any solution except confussed and lost, as in the system I really
don't know what to do, it just a black screen with big text letters,
different from the WinXP which I kind of used to. And the text
letters are so big to me, that what I mean the "big text characters",
sorry for the description :(( It's not capital.My monitor is actually
pretty good.:)
Okay, I guess you mean the text is in a large font on the console. But,
as I understand it from another recent posting of yours, upgrading the
kernel solved these issues, so I won't delve further along this path.
I am not clear about the mouse system,:) but how can I active it in
Debian anyway? In the text screen, the mouse seems useless anyway,
but sometimes I wanted to use mouse to click to a place on the
text-based screen (hobby from winXP),:(, I found the mouse is totally
no responce!
So, as I understand it, you want the mouse available in both X and in
the text-based console. That's the way I like it, also.
To install the "driver" for the text-based console, "aptitude install
gpm". As part of installing gpm, you'll be asked some configuration
questions. You probably have a PS/2 or a USB mouse. The "location" of a
PS/2 mouse will be "/dev/psaux", and the location of a USB mouse will be
"/dev/input/mice", probably. The type will probably be "imps/2",
although you may have to try several different types, depending on your
mouse. You'll also want to turn on repeating, and set the repeat type to
"ms3". If you need to tinker with these settings, you can either
manually edit "/etc/gpm.conf", or run "dpkg-reconfigure gpm", (which is
the method I'd suggest, in order to keep the debconf database in sync
with the actual file contents).
What happens is that with both gpm and the X mouse system running, mouse
events (clicks, scrolls, etc) will be read by one system before the
other system has a chance to read that event. Thus, with the above
settings, gpm is instructed to read the real mouse events, and then to
repeat them to the X system. (It is my understanding that with newer
mice on the /dev/input/mice device, this is not a problem anymore, but
still, using repeat under gpm doesn't hurt anything.)
Now that you have gpm installed and repeating, the mouse in the
text-based console should work. However, you still need to tell X to use
the repeated data from gpm. You'd do this by running "dpkg-reconfigure
xserver-xorg" (or 'xserver-xfree86' if you're still on the XFree86
version of X rather than the Xorg version) and specifying the mouse to
use "/dev/gpmdata". Note that if you've ever manually edited your X
configuration file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf or XF86Config-4.conf, IIRC), the
dpkg-reconfigure command above won't change it until you do the steps
found at the top of that file).
Now you should have a working mouse in both the text-based console and
in X. If the mouse is jumpy or non-responsive, chances are the type or
location of one of these systems is set incorrectly. I'd get gpm working
first, since it has to repeat the correct data in order for X to work.
Hope this helps.
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Kent
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