To quote Mithras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Excuse me if this question is really basic. # # After installing Debian for the first time (but not Linux), I # discovered the mouse wasn't working. # # It didn't move at all at first, and I found last night that /dev/mouse # was just symlinked to some weird device, but not ttyS0 like it should # (for my 3-button Logitech mouse). When I started X, however, the # mouse moved only in occasionally sudden leaps to the left & downward, # while also sending imaginary mouse clicks (pop-up menus appeared). # # Could I have chosen the wrong mouse device to link to? I've heard # that GNOME can be sluggish, but this doesn't appear to be a system # grinding along (other symptoms, like hard drive activity, or slow # screen draws, are not evident). (My cpu is an AMD K6 233, with 80M.) # I cleaned the mouse wheels, so it couldn't be that either. # # Note: I did notice an X error on the console about accessing the mouse # after I quit last night, but alas I don't have that message written down. # # Any suggestions would be appreciated.
I think the problem is 'gpm'. I know it is possible to have 'gpm' and X share the mouse, but I've never found a way(and to all those who are reading this; /dev/gpmdata isn't sufficient). You might want to consider stopping 'gpm', by doing a '/etc/init.d/gpm stop', and see if you X mouse problems go away. If they do, you might try to disable 'gpm' from being started at boot time by using the 'update-rc.d' script. # Besides this mouse problem, I'd just like to say how *pleased* I've # been with Debian. The default X environment (what I've been able to # see of it) and Xdm are gorgeous, and when I discovered that xdm & my # mouse problem conspired to keep me from a console or xterm prompt, I # really appreciated finding the shell prompt available from the boot # CD. My past experience has been with old Red Hat & Slackware # distributions, which simply didn't look as *pretty* as Debian. # (Trivial perhaps, but it is somehow satisfying when your favorite # operating system doesn't look like a sow's ear.) Agreed :) I've rebooted maybe two dozen times in the past few days just so I could see the Debian theme of the Linux Progress Patch :) You're right, veeery satisfying : Dave
