[Techtalk] Keyboard/mouse probs

[Rain]

I have tried it with a USB mouse and I can get it too work ok, but the built
in touchpad, the ps2 port and a serial mouse all wont work.

strange!!1

Rog
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terri Oda" <terri at zone12.com>
To: <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 6:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Techtalk] Keyboard/mouse probs


> At 06:50 PM 15/06/02 +0100, Conor Daly wrote:
> >As sonewhere to start looking, X on boot runs /etc/X11/prefdm while
startx
> >from a console runs /usr/X11R6/bin/startx .  Each of these are shell
> >scripts which in turn start other stuff.  Having a detailed look at each
> >of these scripts might point you towards what they are loading to see if
> >there's anything different.
>
> One thing I've found that conflicts occasionally is gpm (the console mouse
> driver), so if one loads it and the other doesn't don't discount it as a
> possible problem.
>
>   Terri (who was quite pleased to discover that her optical mouse works
> concurrently with the touchpad, no problem at all.  Yeay!)
>
>
>
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