[plug] Re: Mouse problems: was Knoppix XF86 auto-detection

[Chris Caston]

Actually. I do have /dev/mouse

It's a 2 button serial btw.

I'll post a followup with the (hopefully) relevant parts of the
xfree86config

regards,

Chris

On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 23:57, Chris Caston wrote:
> 
> Actually this system failed during an apt-get dist-upgrade and I thought
> I had fixed it but hadn't.
> 
> The mouse was working fine in KDE but I realised I was only using 2
> something so I did an apt-get upgrade. After that the mouse stopped
> working in KDE.It was still version 2.
> 
> I did apt-get dist-upgrade again and it upgraded everything including
> KDE to version 3 but the mouse still wasn't working.
> 
> The file xf86config from knoppix just gave /dev/mouse which I don't seem
> to have.
> 
> It's a serial mouse.
> 
> Any ideas or more info I should give?
> 
> regards,
> 
> Chris Caston
> 
> On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 23:31, Chris Caston wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I just had some trouble setting up Xfree86 on my bro's new machine with
> > a MSI KM2M board with integrated S3 ProSavageDDR.
> > 
> > I ended up sticking in the Knoppix cd and copying over the xf86 config
> > files that it created.
> > 
> > This has made me wonder if it is possible to use such detection
> > automatically when you install Debian the normal way.
> > 
> > What does Knoppix use to do this?
> > 
> > regards,
> > 
> > Chris Caston
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
>