[plug] The mouse and X

[chris]

Describe Psychotic behaviour from the mouse a bit more pls ;)

/dev/mouse being a symlink to /dev/psaux is perfectly normal. /dev/psaux
is the secondary ps2 controller, which is your ps2 mouse with any luck

/dev/psmouse is another one, but psaux is fairly typical of it as
well.(think they are actually the same, cant remember precisely)

my suspicion is an interrupt conflict. cat /proc/interrupt and check
what the mouse is using.. maybe something silly is taking control every
now and again. 

I've had a recent run-in with a dodgy ps/2 port, but I flashed the bios
and that seemed to work for about a month before it developed a similiar
problem - which leads me to think the bios chip is a bit dodgy. 

hope that helps with your problem.. ;) 

Chris HoyPoy


On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 16:02, Andre Thomas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am having a disagreement with setting up Debian Potato with a GUI; in 
> particular getting the mouse to work.
> 
> Basically, no matter what option I try (PS/2 or Intellimouse) with the two 
> mice I have here (a MS Intellimouse and a MS Trekker) I get pshycotic 
> behaviour from the mouse.
> 
> A Ctrl-Alt-BckSpc back to the console shows the error:
> 
> Warning:  /dev/mouse unable to get status of mouse fd (Inappropriate ioctl 
> for device)
> 
> /dev/mouse is a symlink to /dev/psaux ...is this totally incorrect??
> 
> 
> Further to this, I noticed there was also above that:
> 
> System: '/usr.X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb -xkm 
> -m us -em1 "The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:" -emp"> " 
> -eml "Errors from xkb are not fatal to the X server" keymap/xfree86 
> compiled/xfree86.xkm'
> 
> Doesnt look friendly, even if it isn't fatal.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> -Andre.
> 
>