| Stephen Gran on 15 Dec 2003 07:40:03 -0500 |
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On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 08:31:21PM -0500, Ian Reinhart Geiser said: > On Sunday 14 December 2003 08:24 pm, sean finney wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 08:08:02PM -0500, Ian Reinhart Geiser wrote: > > > I was trying to install debian woody on a fairly modern box. Athlon 800 > > > with an NVidia card. For some reason X seems to work save for no > > > keyboard or mouse. If i switch the PS/2 mouse with a USB one, the mouse > > > works. > > > > does it not work from the console either? it could be that x is > > configured to only look for the usb devices. > yeah it works in console. > > whats odd is i just used apt-get install xserver-xfree86 and it did the > configure stuff. From that I can see debian has no visible support for USB, > and provides it via wrapper stuff... should i not use dpkg-reconfigure to > setup X there? dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 is the way to change the auto-setup stuff. By default, there are usually two entries in XF86Config-4 - one for regular mouse, and one for USB. I suspect the protocol or something is wrong for the non-USB mouse, which is why it doesn't work but the other does. Not sure about the keyboard, without knowing more. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | I disagree with what you say, but will | | steve@lobefin.net | defend to the death your right to tell | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | such LIES! | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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