Sounds like nothing more than a mouse protocol or device selection error. You should post the /var/log/XFree86.0.log file to this list. Also, does the mouse work in the console? If so what does: "ps aux | grep -e gpm" report? Mark. On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, Beau wrote: > Sorry if this verges on being off topic. I have spent over twenty > hours trying to get X to work on my compaq presario 2105. I have got > as far as getting twm up, but cannot get the mouse to work. There I > stand. By contrast, my knoppix disc fires up a very nice > windowing-desktop environment, no sweat...but does not do so well with > my networking. Red-Hat auto-configged both just fine last time I > tried it on this box, but for strictly irrational reasons I'd like to > make things work with debian. > > So, here's the question, and feel free to backchannel: which would you > do? Go back to redhat, wrestle networking in knoppix, continue > wrestling X in debian? No pointers too basic, and happy to r any fm > (that's "fine manual") y'all can point to. > > > -- > beau > (c)2004ISR; http://www.semanticrestructuring.com > Choose One: ( )Democracy ( )Paperless Voting > http://www.verfiedvoting.com > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
