Re: Yet another mouse problem

Joe Carey wrote: Hello, I'm new to Debian, but I've fooled around with Red Hat & SuSE. I'm pissed at RH for abandoning us low maintence users. I downloaded Woody the other day and installed on a clean hard disk. The install went okay, but I'm having trouble getting X to recognize my mouse,

Yet another mouse problem

Hello, I'm new to Debian, but I've fooled around with Red Hat & SuSE. I'm pissed at RH for abandoning us low maintence users. I downloaded Woody the other day and installed on a clean hard disk. The install went okay, but I'm having trouble getting X to recognize my mouse, which is a 3 butt

Re: another mouse problem ;-(

Try using /dev/gpmdata as your mouse device. This will cause X to get its mouse input from gpm, and since gpm seems to be working this may solve your problem. There may also be good reasons not to do this... I'm not sure. Oh, another thing -- if it's a PS/2 mouse, under redhat it would be /dev/m

another mouse problem ;-(

I'm having a little problem on my mouse configuration. I'm a "debian newbie", but I have already used many distributions, like SuSE, Mandrake, Red Hat, and it did work well on all of them. But on Debian, it only works in the console, when I use the gpm server. When I start the X Window, it freezes