Re: [PLUG] no mouse or keyboard on debian

[sean finney <seanius@seanius.net>]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 07:41:05AM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote:
> 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.

it's also possible that the mouse isn't playing nicely with being shared
by the console and the X server.  if that's the case, you could try
disabling gpm and restarting x, to see if that helps at all.  if that
is the case, you should set up X to use the gpm daemon's repeater
instead of the mouse device (/dev/gpmdata) if you want both console and
X use of your mouse.  don't know why your keyboard wouldn't work in
X though, i'd take a look at /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and
/var/log/XFree86.0.log for any clues.


	sean

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