Hi,
I have just bought a new 3-button mouse since 3-button emulation does not seem
to work well in Lenny - I had a lot of trouble with unpredictable behaviour
apparently due to contact bounce and getting unwanted context menus, some of
whose entries were sometimes unintentionally activated, with bad effects - but
unfortunately the new mouse is serial rather than PS/2.
I have done dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg as root in a terminal before starting
kdm, but there was no mention of a mouse, only keyboard options were mentioned.
And the new mouse is completely non-functional after doing kdm.
I have also tried Xorg -configure, and the following message was given:
Xorg detected your mouse at device /dev/input/mice. Please check your config
if the mouse is still not operational, as by default Xorg tries to autodetect
the protocol. Your xorg.conf file is /root/xorg.conf.new.
The only mentions of the mouse in /root/xorg.conf.new are in the first section:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
and in a later section:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
I ran X -config /root/xorg.conf.new to test the new xorg.conf, but the new
mouse was still nonfunctional. It was plugged into Serial port 1, and I also
tried going into the BIOS and altering Onboard Serial Port A from 3f8h/COM1 to
Auto, but this didn't help either.
Are serial mice supported in Lenny?
Best regards,
Chris Austin.
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