On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 06:10:00PM -0400, William Bradley wrote: > I have just installed Debian (the latest, I forget the number) and got it > going graphically with Window Maker. Can't get the mouse to work though. > It is installed on /dev/psaux and the pointer is on the screen but immobile. > This particular machine is dualed with Windows 98, so I looked up the mouse > and though it is a Logitech mouse, Windows lists it as a PS/2 mouse.
The version of X in Debian stable has a bug initialising the mouse and
dual booting is one of the situations likely to show it up. Try
echo -ne '\377' > /dev/psaux
from the console before you start X.
This bug was still present in X 4.2.0 but had been fixed by 4.2.1.7;
I'm not sure how 4.2.1 stands.
Also check the mouse configuration section in your
/etc/X11/XF86Config[-4]; it should look something like
# **********************************************************************
# Core Pointer's InputDevice section
# **********************************************************************
Section "InputDevice"
# Identifier and driver
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> When I ran "dmesg" it showed the Com 1 was listed as tty00
ttyS0, surely?
> and I tried it at that setting and got the same result.
That's only for "serial" mice (all mice are "serial" but the term is
used to mean one that plugs into an RS232 (COM) port). /dev/psaux is
correct for a PS/2 mouse.
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