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

[Chris Caston]

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emulating 3 buttons

/dev/mouse is sym linked /dev/ttys0

thanks,

Chris Caston

On Sat, 2003-05-10 at 00:03, Chris Caston wrote:
> 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
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
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