On Monday 25 August 2003 10:06 am, Kent West wrote: > I'd recommend getting the mouse to work with gpm first, as it's simpler > to diagnose. So, first "apt-get install gpm". As part of the install, > that'll run "gpmconfig", and you'll need to specify the mouse location > to be "/dev/psaux", the type to be "imps2", and the repeat type to be > "raw" (assuming you keep gpm, so it'll repeat the raw data to the X > mouse driver, which will also entail configuring X to look to > "/dev/gpmdata" instead of "/dev/psaux").
Hello Kent, I was just about to remove Debian. I have been trying to get this off the shelf PS/2 wheel mouse working for five days. Your suggestion was a new direction, so I made a completely new install and tried it. The answer was still the same. The arrow sits in the middle of the screen immobile. Frankly I find this astonishing, from all that I have heard about Debian. Searching the internet I came across another fellow having the same problem in an earlier Debian system. On another list that I read, someone else was going through the same problem. I'm not an expert by any means but I have installed a variety of linux systems from Dragon Linux, early Slackware, Corel Linux, three versions of Red Hat and then three versions of Mandrake, the latest, 9.2, is what I am using here, and Suse 8.1. Never once, in all of these, have I had a mouse problem. Had a printer problem in the early stuff until I went to a postscript printer, but never the mouse. It does leave me a bit perplexed. Thank you for your response and I will follow any further advice you might have to see if I can get this mouse moving. Bill. William Bradley Come visit us at: http://www.catholicmissionleaflets.org Free Rosaries available at the above. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]