Re: No Mouse in X

2007-03-11 Thread Dave Walker
On 3/6/07, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dave Walker wrote: > In summary, my problem was that X would load but the mouse would be > frozen on the screen. > > Bingo, Andrew - your suggestion that there might be interference by > another utility (maybe gpm) causing the problem proved to be t

Re: No Mouse in X

2007-03-06 Thread Kent West
Dave Walker wrote: In summary, my problem was that X would load but the mouse would be frozen on the screen. Bingo, Andrew - your suggestion that there might be interference by another utility (maybe gpm) causing the problem proved to be the case. I issued the command:killall gpm a

Re: No Mouse in X

2007-03-06 Thread Dave Walker
On 3/5/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: in response to my query below: > I have been having problems configuring my mouse in X. Andrew's suggestion: are you using any utility that might interfere with a mouse (I'm specifically thinking of gpm here). In summary, my prob

Re: No Mouse in X

2007-03-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 09:22:45PM -0600, Dave Walker wrote: > Running Sarge 3.1 with kernel 2.4.27-2-386 > > I have been having problems configuring my mouse in X. > > My initial install was from the Sarge 3.1 cd's prior to my having an > active internet connection. My install was via: > > apt-

Re: No Mouse in X

2007-03-05 Thread Kent West
Dave Walker wrote: > Running Sarge 3.1 with kernel 2.4.27-2-386 > > I have been having problems configuring my mouse in X. > > My initial install was from the Sarge 3.1 cd's prior to my having an > active internet connection. My install was via: > > apt-get install x-window-system (from cd's) > >

Re: No Mouse in X

2007-03-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 09:22:45PM -0600, Dave Walker wrote: > > I think the command to remove x should be: > > apt-get --purge remove x-window-system , then to run > > apt-get install x-window-system (from the net) > I don't think that will accomplish what you want. The --p

Re: No Mouse in X

2007-02-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 06:42:47PM -0600, Dave Walker wrote: > > re-booted, logged in as root > cd to /etc/x11/ > > less XF86Config-4 to confirm that there were 2 serarate mouse sections > for "InputDevice" and that 2 input devices were present in > "ServerLayout" > one was "Configured Mouse" - t

Re: No Mouse in X

2007-02-28 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dave Walker wrote: > The Problem: > > When I run X (startx) from any user account, it begins, loads Gnome (just > today downloaded it) but the mouse does not move. I found out that > quits X, thankfully, so

Re: No Mouse in X

2007-02-28 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 28 February 2007 00:28, Dave Walker wrote: > Hope I am at the right place to ask for help! > > I have reached a debian wall - I have been happy with my progress to date > in getting my sarge built and running, but have run into something that I > can't overcome. > > The Problem: > > Wh

Re: Re: No Mouse in X

2007-02-27 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
> On 2/27/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Your message was received at Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:33:10 +: > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: No Mouse in X > > > > This account is protected by Bluebottle

Re: No Mouse in X

2007-02-27 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Looks for lines containing (EE) which indicates error lines and post them > if you see any. s/Looks/Look s/indicates/indicate (feeling embarrassed) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: No Mouse in X

2007-02-27 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Dave Walker wrote: > I have the file /var/log/XFree86.0.log available, but it is rather lengthy > to post here right now. Looks for lines containing (EE) which indicates error lines and post them if you see any. Also what mouse is this? Is it a USB mouse? PS/2 mouse? touchpad on a laptop? raju

Re: No Mouse in X

2007-02-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/27/07 17:28, Dave Walker wrote: > Hope I am at the right place to ask for help! > > I have reached a debian wall - I have been happy with my progress to > date in > getting my sarge built and running, but have run into something that I > can't >