Hi Jamie, > So, do you have a PS/2 mouse or a USB mouse?
.. it is a USB mouse using a PS/2 adapter which has always been sucessfully configured as PS/2. > > Is your CorePointer now /dev/psaux or /dev/input/mice? /dev/input/mice > > If it's USB mouse, does dmesg show the kernel recognising it when you > plug it in? > In tty1 text mode it flashes by too quickly .. is there an appropriate log file where I can use vi ? --------------------------------------------------------------- Xie Xie, Simon. > If you are using a USB mouse then you want the usbhid module (USB human > interface device). This should be loaded by hotplug automatically. > > That will create the /dev/input/mice device for you. > Tux:~# modprobe usbhid FATAL:Module usbhid not found .. which should not be a problem as it has always been successfully configured as PS/2. > The relevant part of my xorg.conf is: > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Configured Mouse" > Driver "mouse" > Option "CorePointer" > Option "Device" > "/dev/input/mice" > Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > EndSection > > This was created by the Ubuntu installer. I reproduced the above in my /etc/X11/corg.conf - I was not sure if the position of "/dev/input/mice" was intentional or an email artifact so I tried both - with the same result as before > (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice > No such device. > (EE) Configured Mouse: cannot open input device > (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Configured Mouse" > (II) UnloadModule: "mouse" > (WW) No core pointer registered > (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Generic Keyboard" (type: KEYBOARD) > (EE) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap > No core pointer > Fatal server error: > failed to initialize core devices I could not load the usbhid module, nor mousedev - I don't understand why. This Debain unstable system has been pretty stable so far apart from the occasional dist-upgrade - probably the reason for having to work through this again. Cheers, Adam Bogacki, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
-- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
