Hi The console program to set the mouse is mouseconfig run as root, that should set your mouse in 'X'. If at first you don't succeed try try again. You can't do anything bad with wrong mouse settings so it's ok to fiddle with mouseconfig. Robyn On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 12:42, Weaver Weaver wrote: > slitt@troubleshooters.com > > > Sir: 10.06.02 > > I'm running Red Hat 7.1 on a Toshiba laptop and I'm having trouble finding > all the config files to do with the mouse. Current error message is: > > Oops (): invoked from gpm.c 984 /dev/mouse I/O error > > Now, I've bought all the thick books and have searched exhaustively on the > net to find someone to help me, but I can't even get the mouse working in > the Xwindows and shell at the same time. The latest is I've somehow deleted > the /dev/mouse directory. I know of 2 config files, namely > /etc/sysconfig/mouse and /etc/X11/XF86config but the question is, are there > more? Is it preferable to do it by hand or use programs like gpm? I think > the trouble started when I ran gpm and selected the 'no mouse' option. > That's when the directory went. XF86 starts up but the mouse is frozen. > > What I need is to know is how to get to all config file concerned with the > configuration of a certain thing. There could be up to 5 or 6 sometimes, > right? Hope you can send me some good links with easy to post on notice > boards, etc, because I'm drowning here. > > Thanks, > Weaver (from far north Queensland, Australia) > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com > > _______________________________________________ > > Newbie@XFree86.Org > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie >
