Daniel: Well Daniel, X is not very useful without a mouse. I'll try to help.
Use the command SuperProbe to determine what Linux sees with respect to your hardware. Run xf86config to configure you X server. I'm not quite certain what version of software you are using but X11R6.3.2 is far more flexible. (personal option). xf86config will ask you about your mouse. >From a hardware perspective many computers now days come standard with a ps/2 mouse interface on the mother board. You have to make certain that the mouse interface is enabled within the BIOS and you have to make the wire is connected to your mother board. Boot your system, go into the BIOS setup and make sure. If you have an older PC this is probably not the case. If you have some utilities which scan your PC and tell you what your hardware is, this would be helpful. In any case when your kernel loads you should see a line indicating the type of mouse you have and what module(s) are being loaded. I'm assuming your device drivers are loaded as modules. If this is not the case, rebuild your modules with the proper mouse drivers in the kernel. I sounds like you have a hardware problem, not a software problem. Let me know what happens. ---------- From: Daniel Karlsson[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 08, 1997 4:26 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: X Hello I've finally managed to make X work. At least in a way. When I write "startx" I get a patterned background and a square in the upper left corner in which it says xterm. I have no mouse response, even though I have in text mode. All I can do is to press Enter. Then the square disappears and everything appears to be locked. What shall I do to at least get a window with a shell? And what shall I do to get a higher resolution? Hoping for answers.. ____ _ __ ______________________________________________ | _ \ | |/ / | E-post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | | | ' / | WWW : http://www-und.ida.liu.se/~c95danka/ | | | | | | < | Tel : 013 - 17 82 76 | | |_| | | . \ | Adress: Rydsvägen 246 C:21 584 34 LINKÖPING | |____/ aniel |_|\_\ arlsson |______________________________________________|
