Re: Simple & Mouse with Debian on Vaio F340

2001-03-07 Thread Neil L. Roeth
When I installed Debian recently I installed the task-x-window-system-core package and could not get X to run. My comment to look at .xsession-errors stems from that - when I checked it I found that I had forgotten to install a window manager and an xterm program. The X server was starting, but by

Re: Simple & Mouse with Debian on Vaio F340

2001-03-07 Thread Neil L. Roeth
When I installed Debian recently I installed the task-x-window-system-core package and could not get X to run. My comment to look at .xsession-errors stems from that - when I checked it I found that I had forgotten to install a window manager and an xterm program. The X server was starting, but b

Re: Simple & Mouse with Debian on Vaio F340

2001-02-27 Thread steven k. thompson
Thanks to everyone who helped me with my mouse problem. I had used the "simple" option during installation of Debian 2.2.2r to select packages by "tasks", and I read only recently that that does not select all the packages considered standard to run Debian (this is considered a bug to be correcte

Re: Simple & Mouse with Debian on Vaio F340

2001-02-27 Thread steven k. thompson
Thanks to everyone who helped me with my mouse problem. I had used the "simple" option during installation of Debian 2.2.2r to select packages by "tasks", and I read only recently that that does not select all the packages considered standard to run Debian (this is considered a bug to be correct

Mouse with Debian on Vaio F340

2001-02-26 Thread Neil L. Roeth
Sorry if this has been discussed in this thread already, but people often experience problems if they have gpm installed. This package enables you to use the mouse in console mode, and since it captures mouse events, can interfere with the mouse under X. Do "dpkg --status gpm" to see if it is ins

Re: Mouse with Debian on Vaio F340

2001-02-26 Thread Heather
> My mouse (trackpad) does not work after installing many packages, > including gnome related, on my Sony Vaio F340. I have > /dev/mouse in /etc/XF86Config and I linked > ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse. Does anyone have an idea what > to do next or how I might probe to check it out? > > Steve Yeah

Mouse with Debian on Vaio F340

2001-02-26 Thread Neil L. Roeth
Sorry if this has been discussed in this thread already, but people often experience problems if they have gpm installed. This package enables you to use the mouse in console mode, and since it captures mouse events, can interfere with the mouse under X. Do "dpkg --status gpm" to see if it is in

Re: Mouse with Debian on Vaio F340

2001-02-26 Thread Heather
> My mouse (trackpad) does not work after installing many packages, > including gnome related, on my Sony Vaio F340. I have > /dev/mouse in /etc/XF86Config and I linked > ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse. Does anyone have an idea what > to do next or how I might probe to check it out? > > Steve Yea

Mouse with Debian on Vaio F340

2001-02-25 Thread steven k. thompson
My mouse (trackpad) does not work after installing many packages, including gnome related, on my Sony Vaio F340. I have /dev/mouse in /etc/XF86Config and I linked ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse. Does anyone have an idea what to do next or how I might probe to check it out? Steve "Neil L. Roeth"

Mouse with Debian on Vaio F340

2001-02-25 Thread steven k. thompson
My mouse (trackpad) does not work after installing many packages, including gnome related, on my Sony Vaio F340. I have /dev/mouse in /etc/XF86Config and I linked ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse. Does anyone have an idea what to do next or how I might probe to check it out? Steve "Neil L. Roeth"