On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Anna Lawless wrote: > 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. editor: vi or emacs you might be right. have a look at the config. it is mostly self-explanatory, if not do a man XF86Config-4. > > 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.
perhabs posting your xf86config-4 and the logfile might help others to help you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
