Re: Problems wit ps/2 mouse

[Andrew Dwight Dixon]

Edwin Hoff wrote:

> I'm running debian potato on my computer. The problem is, that the
> system doesn't  initialize my ps/2-mouse automatically. To get access to
> the mouse i always run gpmconfig "manually" as root, after this
> procedure the mouse works. Which settings are necessary to have the
> mouse configured automatically.

I set this up with xf86config.  Just tell it you have a:
ps/2 mouse
and that the location is:
/dev/psaux
that's always done the trick for me.

later,
Andy




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Re: Problems wit ps/2 mouse

[Philipp Schulte]

On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 04:48:33PM +0100, Edwin Hoff wrote: 

> I'm running debian potato on my computer. The problem is, that the
> system doesn't  initialize my ps/2-mouse automatically. To get access to
> the mouse i always run gpmconfig "manually" as root, after this
> procedure the mouse works. Which settings are necessary to have the
> mouse configured automatically.

Well, I can think of two situations, that might cause this problem:
1. gpm is not started
2. somehow your gpm.conf gets changed

Phil