Re: Re: X Win and Mouse

2002-12-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 10:20:15PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > isnt mouseless X pointless, or shouldnt that be pointerless... There's a neat trick you can use if you don't have a mouse or your mouse breaks: hit Shift-NumLock and the cursor keys on your numeric keypad will become a substitute

Re: X Win and Mouse

2002-12-29 Thread Michael Naumann
29.12.2002 23:20:15, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >isnt mouseless X pointless, or shouldnt that be pointerless... > >Regards, Dean. Not for me. I admit that I have a mouse attached and fully functional, but I avoid touching it as much as possible. (Well of course to limited success as soon as it ge

Re: X Win and Mouse

2002-12-29 Thread Michael Naumann
29.12.2002 19:26:30, "Matthew Daubenspeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hal Vaughan said: >> 2) Does anyone know how X behaves if it is looking for the mouse on the >> wrong port? Does it not start, start w/out a mouse, keep restarting >> until it finds the mouse, or what? > >It will fail to sta

Re: X Win and Mouse

2002-12-29 Thread Seneca
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 01:29:24PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > Two mouse questions: > > 1) Can someone confirm for me (I'm having strange troubles, again...) that if > I have a mouse port (ATX mobo w/ keyboard and mouse ports above each other), > that it is configured as /dev/psaux (no serial c

Re: X Win and Mouse

2002-12-29 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
Hal Vaughan said: > 2) Does anyone know how X behaves if it is looking for the mouse on the > wrong port? Does it not start, start w/out a mouse, keep restarting > until it finds the mouse, or what? It will fail to start, and you will see a message about not being able to initialize a mouse...