are you running gpm?
does your mouse work under gpm?
if so i recommend that you:
# /etc/init.d/gpm stop
and then get your mouse working under x.
last week i almost threw some perfectly good hardware out the window
gb
said Bob Edwards, on Oct 24,
> Greetings,
>
> My mouse is not
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 02:30:00PM -0500, Bob Edwards wrote:
> My mouse is not working in X. I've made a lot of silly mistakes along
> the way that have made things a lot more difficult than necessary. But I
> persist . . .
>
> Pertinent information:
>
> PS/2 Mouse
Is it a Logitech?
> Potato
It is either a PS/2 mouse or a bus mouse. It can't be both. Unless it's a
raly old mouse it is not a bus mouse. You probably have a PS/2 mouse.
Look at the connector. Is it round or oval. How many pins on it.
Look at the bottom of the mouse. What does it say (manufacturer, model)? How
Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Matthias Mann wrote:
>
> > Do You have a serial or a PS/2 mouse? Some poeple told me that X mouse
> > driver with gpm is not possible by using a PS/2 mouse. Or be they all
> > mistaken?
>
> It is possible to use a PS/2 mouse in X11 with
Matthias, Water, and Glyn -
I have a PS/2 Mouse hooked to a serial port. I don't know what
I/O it is, but windows tells me I have a PS/2 mouse at IRQ 12.
My bootup messages in debian linux say "PS/2 port recognized".
Also, that I have a 16550A at both IRQ3 & IRQ4. I know this mouse
will work with
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 12:08:51PM +0200, thus spake Kerstin Hoef-Emden:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Matthias Mann wrote:
>
> > Do You have a serial or a PS/2 mouse? Some poeple told me that X mouse
> > driver with gpm is not possible by using a PS/2 mouse. Or be they all
> > mistaken?
>
>
Hi,
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Matthias Mann wrote:
> Do You have a serial or a PS/2 mouse? Some poeple told me that X mouse
> driver with gpm is not possible by using a PS/2 mouse. Or be they all
> mistaken?
It is possible to use a PS/2 mouse in X11 without stopping gpm. You just
have to modify the
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Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 5:07 PM
Subject: Re: mouse not working in x
>
> - Original Message -
> From: Bob Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To:
> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 12:51 AM
> Subject: mouse not working in x
>
>
> >
What kind of mouse is it?
-- Original Message --
From: Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 11:07:33 -0400 (EDT)
>>
>> - Original Message -
>> From: Bob Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To:
>> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 12:5
>
> - Original Message -
> From: Bob Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To:
> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 12:51 AM
> Subject: mouse not working in x
>
>
> >
> > Greetings!
> >
> > Thanks to a kind reply from an earlier question,
> > I now have a running xserver, but I have a different p
Hi!
Do you have installed gpm, the consolse mouse driver? Then remove gpm or
kill it with gpm -k before starting X cause the X mouse driver can´t work if
gpm is running.
Matthias
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From: Bob Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 12:51 AM
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> "Richard" == Richard Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi, I'm using the out of the box VALinix/SGI/Gnu Debian at work,
> I installed X and it will not work with the logitech mouse, you
> have to play with gpm and X and get the right combination, I
> installed it at home a
I do not recall who posted a problem with the mouse not working in X but
what fixed it for me is changing the options gpm runs as - it seems
instead of running 'gpm -t ps2' it now runs 'gpm -R -m ps2' (-R -m is
really an option for busmice and shouldn't be a default one anyway).
So just change the
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