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mouse frozen

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erik

mouse frozen

#1 Post by erik »

Hi there,

i have a problem with my mouse. When I start X it keeps in de middle of the screen and I'm not able to move it. I remember deleting some software and updateing the system with synaptic, and the next reboot it didn't move any longer.
I am using Xorg and I believe I configured the xorg.conf file properly since I've used the information from 'mdetect' which says:

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Found the following devices:
   /dev/ttyS0
   /dev/psaux
   /dev/input/mouse0
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "CorePointer"
        Option          "Protocol"      "ImPS/2"
        Option          "Device"        "/dev/psaux"
EndSection
On some other forums I read about some conflict with 'gpm' so I've experimented by stopping en restarting gpm, with no effect. I don't know exactly what gpm is, the man file says it's een mouseserver for the console, but I don't see a mouse in the console either.
In windows the mouse does work so it's no hardware problem.

Can someone help me?
Thanks in advance
Erik

erik

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#2 Post by erik »

Please help me!! I'm still stuck here!!! I have no mouse and its's realy annoying! Now I have to use windows all the time and it bores me BIG time ;-).

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#3 Post by dawgie »

Try adding these two lines:

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 Option "Emulate3Buttons"
 Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
You will need to restart the xserver for the changes to take effect.

My mouse uses /dev/input/mice
Although i also have the device file /dev/psaux
You might need to change the device

erik

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#4 Post by erik »

many many thanks for the reply! Although I already tried those options, but I will try it again, you never know....

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#5 Post by dnusinow »

Just remove gpm. Just get rid of the package. After you do that, restart X and it should work fine.
David Nusinow

erik

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#6 Post by erik »

thanks for the reply, but still no mouse...
I also read that 'cat /dev/psaux', or another possible mouse device, should give some output. That's not the case also...

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#7 Post by john_h »

Have you tried running the xorg configuration again (dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, IIRC)? That includes detection/configuration of the mouse. With good luck and a following wind it may detect/configure it automatically.

erik

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#8 Post by erik »

OK, the xorg configuration didn't detect the mouse, instead I had to pick one from a list. I've tried to 'cat' all the devices from the list and never got output...
When I boot I see something called 'hotplug' which detects a PS/2 mouse, maybe there is some conflict with it? But I don't know what hotplug is...
BTW what exactly do you mean by IIRC?

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#9 Post by Harold »

If I Remember Correctly

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#10 Post by john_h »

Sorry for the obscure geek-speak back there. ;)

You mention you're using xorg.conf. What version of Debian are you running (Sarge/Etch/Sid), and in particular which kernel are you using?

erik

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#11 Post by erik »

Well, at least you remembered correctly :-).
I'm running the 2.6.12-1-686 kernel, en the testing release which is Sarge if I'm right...
I spoke to a guy from school and he was able to cat his mouse device, so I realy think the problem might have to do something with that... since I am not able to cat my mouse device...

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#12 Post by dawgie »

Maybe a module needs to be loaded.
Does
# modprobe psmouse
do anything?

erik

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#13 Post by erik »

YEAH!!! You just made me VERY HAPPY!!!!!!!! The mouse works again, I can not believe it!!! Thank you so much! It's quite obvious if you think about it, but I haven't experimented with loading modules to much so it just didn't pop up in to my mind...
I was seriously thinking about re-installing debian again, but thats no way to treat Linux ofcourse...
Anyway, how can I make the startupscript to modprobe psmouse?

Many many thanks to everybody!!

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#14 Post by dawgie »

erik wrote:YEAH!!! You just made me VERY HAPPY!!!!!!!! The mouse works again, I can not believe it!!! Thank you so much! It's quite obvious if you think about it, but I haven't experimented with loading modules to much so it just didn't pop up in to my mind...
I was seriously thinking about re-installing debian again, but thats no way to treat Linux ofcourse...
Anyway, how can I make the startupscript to modprobe psmouse?

Many many thanks to everybody!!
Edit /etc/modules
add the line:
psmouse

I'm glad it worked!

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