On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 04:41:56PM -0600, Don Meyer wrote: > Okay, my first dumb question. > > Has X installed and working fine, updated some packages, one of which was > "gpm" as I recall. Now, mouse not working. Then, ran xf86config and X > won't start at all. Sigh.
gpm and X may be in conflict on who owns that mouse. If that is the case, try /etc/init.d/gpm stop as root. On the other hand, X could be relying on gpm to produce mouse data in /dev/gpmdata. Look in /etc/X/XF86Config-4 if /dev/gpmdata is mentioned in the mouse section. (try grep /dev/gpmdata /etc/X/XF86Config-4) > There was a setup program (not xf86config) that I had used during the > install to set the mouse type etc. It was graphical. Any clues as to > what that was appreciated. dpkg-reconfigure xserver-[your xserver] will probably do the trick. "xfree86" is a good candidate for being your xserver.
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