On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 06:34:05PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote:
| Quoting Jack Grigg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
|
| > Dear Debian support,
| > I have subscribed with mail address "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
| > (but the return address for this email is also valid)
| >
| > I'm installing release 2.2 r2
| > and I'm having trouble getting my mouse to work in the X windows system.
| >
| > It is a microsoft mouse, connected to the COM1 serial port. I have
| > editted the "/etc/X11/XF86Config" file with the "microsoft" protocol ,
| > and port "/dev/ttys0".
^
That should be a capital 'S'.
| > when I run startx it goes through the startup (svga16) the screen
| > blanks, and then it halts with a message similar to "mouse error:could
| > not open mouse (input/ouput)".
HTH,
-D
