Re: Mouse not functioning in KDE2.2(stable)/ X-windows-system-core 4.2.19 (unstable)

From: shut (shut_at_raspberryheaven.net)
Date: 08/14/03

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    Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 01:55:41 -0400
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    Kent West wrote:
    > shut wrote:
    >
    >> Hello,
    >>
    >> I have spent the last 24 hours grappling with a problem in configuring
    >> KDE 2.2 and X 4.2.19 to use my mouse. I have gone through the default
    >> configurations after installing them via apt. The pointer merely
    >> remains in the center of the screen while X/KDE loads at start-up, and
    >> remains non-functional through logging in via the GUI. This is a
    >> generic 3 button mouse, made (or branded by) General Electric.
    >>
    >> Here the relevant part of my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (made by xf86config)
    >>
    >> # Identifier and driver
    >>
    >> Identifier "Mouse1"
    >> Driver "mouse"
    >> Option "Protocol" "MouseSystems"
    >> Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
    >>
    >> I have set this to /dev/psaux as well with no luck, the mouse pointer
    >> remains in the middle of the screen. After reading through several
    >> messages in the archive, I apt-get'd gpm and configured that as well,
    >> using the defaults. Here's that current (/etc/gpm.conf) config file.
    >>
    >> device=/dev/mouse
    >> responsiveness=
    >> repeat_type=ms3
    >> type=autops2
    >> append=""
    >> sample_rate=
    >
    >
    > Does the mouse have a PS/2 connector, or the older 9-pin style of serial
    > connector (or something else)? If PS/2, your device should be /dev/psaux
    > in /etc/gpm.conf. If 9-pin serial, it should be /dev/ttyS[0-3, probably
    > 0]. "/dev/mouse" is probably a link to the real device file (and it may
    > not even exist if you didn't create it).
    >
    > You'll want to set "repeat_type" to "raw" instead of "ms3", and I don't
    > recall ever having success with "autops2" as the "type"; I always
    > specifically set it to "ps2" or "imps2" or whatever protocol the mouse
    > needs.
    >
    > I'd get gpm working in the console (outside of X, like via Ctrl-Alt-F2,
    > then login) before trying to tackle the mouse within X.
    >
    >> Also, I would like to know how to disable X/KDE from starting up if I
    >> have to do anything involving either of those two applications such as
    >> X -configure or some such. Then again, I'm not really sure what I am
    >> doing with these files aside from linking device files (mouse is
    >> symbolically linked to gpmdata). And yes, I am doing all of these
    >> from root. If there is someone whom had the same problem as I and I
    >> missed the message, could you please link me to the archive or
    >> whatever search terms you used to find it. Thank you very much.
    >
    >
    >
    > You can uninstall [xwgk]dm, depending on which is installed, like
    > "apt-get --purge remove kdm". Or you can rename/move/delete the symlink
    > in /etc/rc2.d that starts [xwgk]dm; so that it doesn't start with
    > S[somenumber], or you can rename/move/delete the actual script (instead
    > of just the symlink) in /etc/init.d. Or you can add "exit 0" as the
    > first executable line of the [xwgk]dm script. Or you can let it start
    > up, then shell out to a text console (like Ctrl-Alt-F1), login, and run
    > "/etc/init.d/[xwgk]dm stop"; later you can restart the login screen by
    > replacing "stop" with "start".
    >
    >

    Ah thank you for the helpful info. I have configured and reconfigured
    everything, but yet, the mouse does not respond in kdm. /dev/mouse is
    linked to gpmdata. Using /dev/mouse and /dev/psaux lead to x/kde
    starting up, but the mouse still not working. It is quite possible this
    is a hardware problem now, but the mouse has worked on other systems. I
    suppose there's not really more I could do aside from these simple
    steps, eh? 

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