Re: First time installation; usb mouse woes

[Kent West]

(CC:ing to list, so that others might can benefit from the exchange.)

Stephen Liu wrote:

On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 01:44, Kent West wrote:
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Now I am using a PS/2 mouse instead with /dev/psaux setting
     

Is the optical mouse usb? ps/2? serial? what? If usb, you'll want 
/dev/input/mice; if ps2, you'll want /dev/psaux.
   

Sorry, I forgot to mention.  It is a USB optical mouse.

On another distro under /etc/X11/XF86config
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
then the USB mouse works.  But it does not work in Debian

 

_Unless_ you're using gpm, the console mouse driver, in addition to the 
mouse driver in X. In that case, you'll need to get gpm configured 
properly, repeating the "raw" data, and configure X to look to /dev/gpmdata.
   

Is it to edit /etc/X11/gdm/gdmconfig ?  What shall I add or delelet
there?
 

First, decide if you want the console mouse or not. Many people don't; I 
prefer to have it myself. So I'll assume you want the console mouse.

"apt-get install gpm" and/or "gpmconfig" if it's already installed. When 
asked for the location of the mouse, enter:
 /dev/input/mice

When asked for the type, enter
 imps2
When asked for the repeat type, enter
 raw
After gpmconfig finishes (or during the testing phase if offered), move 
the mouse. You should see a white block pointer. If not, I suspect you 
need to install some usb-related modules. There is no reason to try to 
get the mouse working in X if it does not work in gpm. Get it working in 
gpm first.

Then configure X to use the mouse data as it gets repeated from gpm. Run 
"dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" and when you get to the mouse 
section, enter "/dev/gpmdata" as the location, and "imps/2" as the type.

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Rather than deal with two totally different issues in one thread, I'm 
dropping the CDROM issues for now, and changing the Subject line 
accordingly.

--
Kent


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