Jeff Abrahamson on Wed, 01 Jan 2003 21:50:31 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] Debian install


On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 09:06:20AM -0500, Michael Leone wrote:
> Bill Patterson said:
> > Continuing, I could not find anything in /var/log/XFree86, so I
> 
> turgon@mail:/var/log$ ls -la  X*
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        24970 2002-07-27 21:22 XFree86.0.log
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        24968 2002-07-13 22:17 XFree86.6.log
> 
> These are the messages X spits out, as it starts (and runs).
> 
> > I played a lot of games with it, offering it a chance at each of the
> > (was it 16?) mouse protocols supported by Debian, and MY mouse, which
> > likes Red Hat, Windoze, and even Corel Linux, would not talk!
> 
> Standard PS/2 connected (wheel) mice usually look like this, in
> /etc/X11/XF86Config-4:
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier      "Default Mouse"
>         Driver          "mouse"
>         Option          "CorePointer"
>         Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
>         Option          "Protocol"              "IMPS/2"
>         Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
>         Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
> EndSection

Try

    ls -l /dev/psaux

On my machine, this is

    crw-------    1 root     root      10,   1 2002-12-27 18:40 /dev/psaux

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 Jeff

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