I've used Mandrake for the last two years, but always wanted to move to Debian. I installed release 2r2 on my old box a year ago, but couldn't get my mouse to work in an x window, so moved back to another distro.
I've just installed Woody on my main box. Everything went fine until I started an X session. Then... mouse pointer as windowmanager was loading, then pointer disappeared. The desktop menus open at random, it seems, I have a mouse pointer, but it's not working properly. I'm using XF86-4 with the Vesa driver for a nVideo Riva2 card. My mouse is a standard ps2 wheelmouse. This may be a hint as to what's gone wrong. I don't have the message to hand, I'm having to use windoze to send this. After starting X for the first time this was in the information on tty2. Generic mouse loaded Configured mouse loaded. So it seems that I have two mice in my config file. I'm guessing that that's causing a conflict. I'm a Debian newbie and don't have a great deal of experience with working with console apps. I don't know which editor would be best for me to read and edit my xf86-4 config file. Could anyone give me advise? In other Debian-based distros (storm and Corel) I've had no mouse problems. Could the two entries be the cause? And if I need to edit config files, which is the best console editor to use? I have even installed debian jr so I should have a good selection, but haven't a clue what is included in a standard debian installation and which is best for somebody who knows Linux to some extent but has always worked in a windowed environment. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
