>From: Jan Björkman <jannebjorkman@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: newbie@XFree86.Org
>To: <newbie@XFree86.Org>
>Subject: Mouse problems....Debian/Xfree86
>Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 01:00:05 +0200
>
>I've just installed Debian 2.2 r6 with Xfree86-packet
3.3.6....everything seems to work fine exept for the mouse....?
i am a debian user, i highly recommend version 3, but i should be able
to help at anyrate
>
>The mouse is an ordenary old MS serial-mouse with 2 buttons...It
feels like connection-problems between the protocol and hardware....
>The hardware works fine so it should be a broken link someware...
>How does this part of Xfree works...? What do I need to connect the
mouse to Xfree? Could it be something I've forgotten to install that the
protocol is needed...?
>
>The messages I get is:
>"Warning: /dev/mouse unable to get status of mouse fd(invalid argument)"
>"Xinit:connection to Xserver lost"
>
>Ive tried to configure though the application xf86config and
pgm....I've looked in the xf86config-file, but I'm not shure what to do
there so I have'nt changed anything....and I'm hoping that the
configuration application know what to do.....
>What can be wrong...?
>Can anyone help me...?
>
>/Absolutly Newbie...;-)
>
make sure the gpm program is not running, it is a console mouse package,
it generally interferes with the X server
the program gpmconfig, avail from console ( alt+ctrl+f1 ) should help,
if not that, try a :
# killall gpm
X doesnt usually have many problems with the mouse, i dont know what to say
here is a snip from my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
also, many newbies have problems finding the error msgs,
i suggest redirecting errors to a file rather than the console, start X
in the following manner until it is configed properly, at that point you
can use startx and debug your window manager
# X 2> XERRORS.txt
[alt + ctrl + f1]
# cat XERRORS.txt
( perhaps you where unaware of the difference between startx and simply X )
X starts the x server, startx does a whole lot more, it also starts the
window manager and read the XSession file with user preferences and whatnot
anyway, hope this helps,
darrell
http://notnull.ca
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