[Sussex] Problems with Installing Debian 3.1

[Steve Dobson]

John

On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 03:37:09PM +0100, John Gregory wrote:
> I installed this with the default 2.4 kernel and it ran without any 
> problems using Gnome desktop.  Switching to KDE resulted in slight 
> problems with the mouse behaviour so I tried a clean reinstall with the 
> 2.6 kernel.
> 
> First off it refused to load the Xserver until I reconfigured it 
> correctly.  Having done some editing to the file I now get as far as the 
> Gnome graphical login screen and I can login.  However NO mouse and 
> everything freezes (inc CTRL/ALT/DEL).
> 
> I have no problems like this with Suse 9.3, Knoppix4.0 ,Ubuntu5.04 or a 
> live Mepis distro. I am using a Microstar laptop with a Nvidia graphics 
> card and the "nv" Linux driver. Both the PS/2 mouse and Synaptics 
> touchpad have been configured manually as only the mouse was picked up 
> during installation.

The device names and locations have changed for the mouse in 2.6.  With
the number of different pointing devices around the is a need to pull
them all together so any can be used to drive the Xserver.  Take a look
in /dev/input and if you see a number of files (mice, mouse0, mouse1, ...)
then this is what you should be using.  "mice" it the concatenation of
all the mouse devices, so the xserver only need to read one device to see
all the pointing devices (touch-pad, nipple, USB mouse, ...).

Try changing your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to look like this:

    Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse"  <- This must match an entry InputDevice entry
				  in ServerLayout
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
	Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "off"
	Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
	Option      "Buttons" "5"
    EndSection

Hope this helps

Steve


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