On Monday 25 August 2003 06:10 pm, Kent West wrote: > Sorry; I guess I didn't make myself clear. Forget completely about X for > now; in fact, you might want to even disable the graphical login screen > (add "exit 0" as the first non-comment line in the appropriate script: > /etc/init.d/gdm or kdm or xdm or wdm and then reboot). Get the mouse > working in the non-X console first via gpm. Once that's working, then > you can worry about X.
Did the above, X is now disabled and boots to the command line. > If I remember correctly, you said this mouse works fine in Windows on > the same box. I guess that means the mouse has not been > unplugged/replugged, with the attendant possibilities of broken/bent > pins, bad connection, etc? I turned off both of my machines, and took the PS/2 scroll mouse off the Mandrake unit, and installed it on the dual boot Debian unit. Then booted them both up again. The one that I took off the Debian unit, that was not working there, worked fine on the Mandrake unit. The one I took off the Mandrake machine is stationary on the Debian unit. > In the text console, using gpm, you should see a white rectangle as your > mouse pointer. It should function just as a pointer should, only it'll > be rectangular instead of pointy. Do not try to configure gpm from > within X! Get out of X completely to do this. Kill X. Exit X. Do not > start X. Forget X. Ex X. I now have a white rectangle but it is stationary on the screen. Thank you for this help, I appreciate it very much and I would like to get Debian going. Bill. William Bradley Come visit us at: http://www.catholicmissionleaflets.org Free Rosaries available at the above. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
