On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 01:51:15PM -0400, Eric Cheney wrote: > > Hello. I'm trying to introduce a debian box to my office....I am not > a sysadmin, so I stumble a little bit with these things. Anyway, I want to > make > a good impression of deb. I've installed woody. I'm getting weird things > with the mouse. Can somebody help? Here's what's up. > > I loaded up X server and it connects and all that. If I start X with > gpm, I get a mouse, but it is very erratic and unacceptable. So, if > I remove gpm, and then restart X, the mouse works fine under X. Ok, > if I then reboot, there's no connection to the mouse without gpm; so after > reboot (after removing gpm), the mouse is dead under X. > > In the XF86Config-4 setup file I have the mouse on /dev/psaux. I checked, > and there is a link from /dev/psaux -> gpmdata. I'm using a ps/2 mouse
I should add that even if I reboot after I've installed gpm, I get no mouse whatsoever. The system reports gpm running if I do ps -wayx | grep gpm; but no mouse activity. If I then remove gpm and the reinstall it with apt, yes it then works. But I can't get it to work straight from boot. Thanks again.
