[CLUE-Tech] Suse 9 on Dell Latitude

[Mike Staver]

I answered my own question - oddly enough, this is what I had to do:

1) Remove hwscan from /etc/init.d/rc3.d and /etc/init.d/rc5.d.
2) Set gpm to start at boot up in /etc/init.d/rc5.d.
3) Run yast via command line using cntrl-alt-f2 to get into it - then 
run the tool to choose a new mouse type, which I set to generic 
Microsoft PS/2 mouse.

It then worked - but odd that after an update from the suse website I 
had to do all that.  I have no idea why gpm got reset to not autostart.  
I think hwscan had something to do with it.

Mike Staver wrote:

> For some odd reason, I installed Suse 9 on this Dell Latitude laptop 
> which has both a track pad and eraser head type mouse. It worked great 
> (the mouse that is) until I visited the update part of yast, 
> downloaded and installed all updates, and then shut it down. I turn it 
> on a week later, and bam, no mouse.  I have tried removing hwscan from 
> the start up and having gpm start when the machine boots.  For some 
> reason, every time it starts up, gpm doesn't start even though I 
> enabled it in the runlevel editor. Any ideas?
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