Dave Walker wrote: > Running Sarge 3.1 with kernel 2.4.27-2-386 > > I have been having problems configuring my mouse in X. > > My initial install was from the Sarge 3.1 cd's prior to my having an > active internet connection. My install was via: > > apt-get install x-window-system (from cd's) > > I am considering removing x and reinstalling from the net, to see if > my installation will become functional.
No need, if the only problem is a mouse problem. What I've tended to do in the past is get my mouse working _outside_ of X first, because that allows me to verify that the mouse is working without the complexity of X being involved. To do this, "apt-get install gpm". Alternatively, you can simply keep trying to reconfigure X until you get a working mouse. "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common" or "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" might get you going. Or you can manually edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. (Or perhaps Sarge uses X.org now instead of XFree86, in which case some of the commands above would be different, but I don't think that's the case. Sarge is pretty old; I suspect that unless you _need_ Sarge for some reason, you'd be happier with Etch.) You can also get a clue as to which mouse device to use in your X config file by typing something like "cat /dev/ttyS0" or "cat /dev/input/mice" at a command line and moving the mouse; you should see garbage appear on the screen when you've found the correct device file. (ctrl-c to stop the garbage.) > I think the command to remove x should be: > > apt-get --purge remove x-window-system , then to run > > apt-get install x-window-system (from the net) > > Keeping in mind that I am a Debian newbie, does anybody see any > problems with this approach? As I understand it, "x-window-system" is simply a "virtual package" that depends on all the stuff needed for X. Removing this virtual package does not remove its dependencies, so this command would be useless for removing X. (aptitude, I believe, might do the task however, as it's "smarter" about removing dependencies than is apt-get, but I'm not positive on that.) But again, removing X is overkill in order to just fix a mouse problem. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
