on Fri, 11 Jan 2002 04:32:01AM +0100, marTin insinuated: > makes sense. then this must be the problem. go for it, nori!
gone for. succeeded. well, mostly. after the usual agonies my mother goes into when i take apart anything involving both my computer (let alone hers!) and screwdrivers, i found which video card i'd stuck in there last year (didn't think to write it down at the time), took a clue from another thread, ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86, and X is now up and working. except the mouse is really erratic. if i move it at all it goes psychotic, opening up random rxvt terms, menus, and clicking itself into a full screen of calculator applications and icons. which is mildly amusing but not sustainably so, and since i prefer to primarily work with X, i'm wondering what i did in the mouse configuration. in the menus that i went through reconfiguring X, there were mouse options. i remember doing the following: * specifying the "PS/2" protocol since my little hp scrolly-wheel mouse wasn't on the list (though as further reading suggested that if i wanted the mouse-wheel working in X, i ought to make it ImPS/2, so i manually edited just that line in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 -- any experience with this; anyone gotten that scrolly wheel working in X?) * enabling "emulate 3 buttons" * enabling the mouse-wheel functions as there were any * specifying /dev/gpmdata as the mouse ____ [device? port? insert whatever term this should be here], as: orange:~# ls -l /dev/mouse lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 8 2001 /dev/mouse -> gpmdata orange:~# ls -l /dev/gpmdata prw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 10 22:11 /dev/gpmdata ^ (what's that p in the special bit?) so i think this is all basically correct, but i'm not sure how to go about varying these options without going through dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 again, which i don't want to do, since everything else seems to be working correctly. as X is kind of useless without the mouse, does anyone have any ideas? i've been googling on this, and can't find anything except to just keep going through the xf86config again, and i don't feel like re-specifying everything, and possibly screwing up the options that i currently have right. manually editing XF86Config is an idea, i suppose, except i don't know what to do with it. any ideas? tia, </nori> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>-------------------------------------------------- -------------------------http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~nori/jnl/daily.html
