David was once rumoured to have said:
>
> simple things that make me weep.
>
> I'm installing a new Debian and can't get the mouse to work. I doubt it's
> hardware, because:
>
> This box is a test bed, and yesterday this mouse worked fine under SuSE;
> The mouse works through a switch and works fine on three other boxes;
> I haven't moved the hardware at all (except the mouse of course ;-)
>
> On the old RH install, gpm looks like this:
> [david@ns david]$ ps ax | grep gpm
> 521 ttyS0 S 0:00 gpm -t ms
> The debian version looks like this:
> david@test:~$ ps ax | grep gpm
> 509 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/mouse -t ms
Of course, I'm going to ask the stupid question(s).
Have you made sure that the /dev/mouse symlink points to the right
serial device?
Have you also made sure that the serial module is loaded?
C.
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