Thanks for the reply. It's a standard PS/2 mouse with a scroll wheel.
The mouse works fine under Windows XP(dual boot system) and when I cat /dev/input/mice and move the mouse, I get the random characters. The system is a cheapo MicroCenter PowerSpec, but I've had it running Linux and X successfully in the past. As a matter of fact, I installed Ubuntu on it the other day just to see if everything worked under Ubuntu and it did. X and the mouse worked fine. Very frustrating how much trouble I've been having with this. Any other ideas. Ed -----Original Message----- From: Juergen Fiedler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 3:06 PM To: Ed Young Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: New install->Broken X->modprobe mousedev->now X Works, but no mouse On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 02:31:40PM -0700, Ed Young wrote: > > I did a new install of Debian 3.1r1 and X failed out with a > /dev/input/mice no device found error. > > I issued modprobe mousedev and then startx got x running, but the > mouse still doesn't work. I added mousedev to /etc/modules and now > when I reboot, X starts but still no mouse. > > I've run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 and experimented with > various mouse configs but still no mouse. Do you get anything interesting when you type 'cat /dev/input/mice' and wiggle the mouse? You should get a stream of random characters - if not, your problem is not with X but with the mouse. What type of mouse is it, anyway? --j -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]