Re: [PLUG] no mouse or keyboard on debian

[Ian Reinhart Geiser <geiseri@yahoo.com>]

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On Monday 15 December 2003 09:09 am, sean finney wrote:
> 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.
Aha!  That was it.  gpm was not installed, as soon as i installed gpm it all 
worked again perfectly.

Debian is user friendly, its just picky about its freinds ;)

Now I can get back to my regularly scheduled project KControl panel interface 
to debian ;)

Cheers
	-ian reinhart geiser

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