From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: joy Subject: Re: mouse not writing to device file..... Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 14:47:44 +0530 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <402C9638.60704@sancharnet.in> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20040212091018.01f91780@celine> <5.1.0.14.1.20040212202502.01faeaa0@celine> Reply-To: gracecott@sancharnet.in, gracecott@sancharnet.in Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; format="flowed"; charset="us-ascii" To: James Miller , linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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 >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs