On 5/15/10 10:34 AM, Chris Austin wrote: > 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. > > > I would take X out of the equation, and see if you can get it working in the console with gpm.
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