On 3/6/07, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dave Walker wrote:
> In summary, my problem was that X would load but the mouse would be
> frozen on the screen.
>
> Bingo, Andrew - your suggestion that there might be interference by
> another utility (maybe gpm) causing the problem proved to be the
> case.....
>
> I issued the command: killall gpm
>
> and then : startx
>
> and I now have a working gnome desktop.
>
You can keep gpm if you want by telling it to repeat data as ms3 and
then configure the mouse in X to be on /dev/gpmdata.
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Got the mouse to work as desired using a bit of advice from here and
there (mostly here!) - thanks everyone.....
This what I did to make the mouse behave in X.............
- located my gpm.conf in directory /etc/
- edited to confirm/change the following lines:
device=/dev/psaux/ (was already there)
repeat_type=raw (changed to this)
type=ps2 (ditto)
- then edited my X configuration file in the mouse device section:
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4
/dev/psaux ===========> /dev/gpmdata
This had to be done logged on as root.
Note: I needed to re-boot to make the changes take effect. Just
logging out and in again didn't make the changes take effect.
Thanks again to the group
Dave W.
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