[CLUE-Tech] X on Woody

[Adam Bultman]

What is the protocol for your mouse?  My mice (now almost all USB), but 
other ones require my protocol to be changed from
PS/2
to
IMPS/2

Then, when using my mouse, it doesn't hug the corners and chill there 
uselessly.

Give it a whirl.  I runa  debian woody system (dual monitors, cards) and 
it runs just fine. You *should* have xf86config, and all those; mine were 
tucked in a wierd spot where my PATH wasn't reaching.



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adamb at glaven.org
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On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Sean LeBlanc wrote:

> I'm trying to get X configured in Woody, and the first problem I ran into
> was that the mouse is not being detected, and that I should edit the config
> file to set it manually. Well, I tried that, and no dice.
> 
> So, I thought I'd back up and try to get gpm working first. I installed gpm,
> and I get mouse support. Well, sorta. I can see the cursor sort of flash
> around the upper right corner, and occasionally the entire top line of the
> console gets highlighted. Okay, so I thought I'd circumvent my KVM, and hook
> up another mouse (very similar model to the first: Logitech Trackman
> Marble+, the first one is a Logitech Trackman Marble Wheel; they look
> exactly the same, so I'm not sure why the name change. I suspect marketing.)
> directly to the PS/2 port. Now gpm works. But X doesn't really do anything,
> even though I kill gpm before starting X.
> 
> X opens up and I have the black and white background, with no cursor. So now
> I have to ask: is XFree86 -configure the usual way to set up X on Debian?
> Maybe my video card is just so old and/or crappy that I need to do something
> special? At one point, I did have RH on this box, so I know it should work.
> 
> Another question: how do I turn off gpm/xdm trying to launch at 
> startup? Until I get this working, there is little point in that trying to
> launch. :) I checked /etc/inittab, and it didn't look like it's set there. 
> 
> FWIW, the video board is detected as an S3 864 by XFree86 -configure.
> 
>