On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Larry Gariepy wrote: > Hello. > I am mailing a message that I posted earlier on the newsgroup because a > friend of mine informed me that many people subscribe to the list but do > not check the newsgroup that often. > ------------------------------------- > I am a new Debian user. With a great deal of help from a friend (read: > he installed and debugged it for me), I now have Debian Linux 1.3.1 on > my Pentium 233. It is set up as a dual boot machine, with Win95. > > My problem is that X Windows doesn't seem to recognize my mouse, though > it works under Win95, and you even get a mouse cursor when logged in to > a vt100 terminal. The mouse is just a standard Microsoft serial mouse. > > If anyone has had this problem, or even if you haven't and know how to > fix it, any advice would be greatly appreciated.
I had a similar problem: a three-button mouse that was recognised by X as a two-button mouse, though it worked correctly in text mode (with gpm). The trick here is, that gpm can export the mouse device so that X can use it. To do this, add the '-R' option to then 'append' line in /etc/gpm.conf, like this: append="-R" You can do this manually or with the 'gpmconfig' program. Then you will have to make the /dev/gpmdata fifo, like this: # cd /dev # mkfifo gpmdata Then, configure X to use a Mouse Systems mouse attatched to /dev/gpmdata. Restart gpm and X and see if it works. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .