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From: joy <gracecott@sancharnet.in>
To: James Miller <jamtat@mailsnare.net>, linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mouse not writing to device file.....
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 14:47:44 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <402C9638.60704@sancharnet.in> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.58.0402130706310.13970@debian-emach

James Miller wrote:

 >On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Ray Olszewski wrote:
 >
 >
 >
 >>At 09:37 AM 2/13/2004 +0530, joy wrote:
 >>[...]
 >>
 >>
 >>>>Do you possibly have gdm (the mouse app for consoles) running? If so,
 >>>>kill it ... it often interferes with access to the mouse by X.
 >>>>
 >>>>
 >>>never used gdm..........
 >>>
 >>>
 >>Sorry; that was a typo. I meant to write gpm (gdm is an X login manager,
 >>like xdm, and not what I meant to refer to).
 >>
 >>
 >
 >This sounds a little like a problem I had recently (and never solved) that
 >was somehow related to the 2.6.x kernel.  Does your install perhaps use a
 >2.6.x kernel?  When I tried adding the 2.6.x kernel from Debian as a boot
 >
 >
a brand new ,top of the line 2.6.2!!

 >option, each time I would boot using that kernel, I would not be able to
 >control the mouse in X.  The cursor would appear on the screen, but moving
 >the mouse would have no effect on it.  I did get error messages though -
 >something to the effect of "pointing device not found"  (don't recall
 >precisely, since my resolution was to put the matter on the back burner
 >
 >
No no no, after checking out the speed of the 2.6, with KDE loading in
quarte the time,how did you ever get the heart to go back?
I suggest you do the same as  I did -- check the config .If yours too is
a USB mouse, then with the HID support built in or as a module
the mouse will still use psaux. Also disable support for anything called
APIC in the kernel.
according to NVIDIA 's  helpfile this affects performance on the X
server (mine used to hang every 3.5 (approx.,) minutes)


 >and go back to a 2.4.x kernel, under which the mouse works fine).  Don't
 >know if these comments will aid the discussion or help in troubleshooting.
 >
 >
 >James
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-13  9:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-12  3:45 mouse not writing to device file joy
2004-02-12 17:23 ` Ray Olszewski
2004-02-13  4:07   ` joy
2004-02-13  4:37     ` Ray Olszewski
2004-02-13  8:57       ` joy
2004-02-13 13:12       ` James Miller
2004-02-13  9:17         ` joy [this message]
2004-02-13 15:32           ` James Miller

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