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Old 02-18-2008, 09:25 PM
Ron
 
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Default Mouse problem

I've just installed slack 9
The serial mouse works in the command mode
I use midnight commander, it works.
It doesn't work in X


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Old 02-18-2008, 09:25 PM
Joost Kremers
 
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Default Re: Mouse problem

Ron wrote:
> I've just installed slack 9
> The serial mouse works in the command mode
> I use midnight commander, it works.
> It doesn't work in X


your post is very uninformative. how exactly does it not work? what have
you done to configure X and your mouse? what kind of mouse do you have?

as an educated guess, you most likely chose the wrong mouse driver. try
figuring out (through google for example) which driver you need and make
the necessary modifications in /etc/X11/XF86Config.

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Joost Kremers joostkremers@yahoo.com
Slackware doesn't have any quirks. Other distros have quirks. Slackware's
just pure Linux.
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Old 02-18-2008, 09:26 PM
Daniel de Kok
 
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Default Re: Mouse problem

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Ron wrote:
> I've just installed slack 9
> The serial mouse works in the command mode
> I use midnight commander, it works.
> It doesn't work in X


What lines do you have in /etc/X11/XF86Config for your mouse? You should
have something like:

Option "Protocol" "Auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"

in the mouse section. Try to configure X with "xf86cfg -textmode", if you
like to configure X with a menu interface.

With kind regards,
Daniel de Kok
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