[nflug] mouse failure with xserver

[JJ Neff]

I fought this same thing for some time.  Running DEbian testing on an OLD
Compaq Desktop (pre Y2K) I finally was given the answer at #debian irc
freenode.

I had to manually load psmouse (insmod psmouse) and then add it to /etc/modules
(along with mousedev) 

The PS2 mouse module was NOT loading automatically.  Once I loaded it
everything worked as expected. ( I tried the same thing pointing to USB mice et
al)

>From a cmd prompt try 'sudo (or su if you haven't set up sudo yet) insmod
psmouse'

THen try gpmsetup and see if you can get it working there.  If so no problems.

JJN 
--- Eric <eric at bootz.us> wrote:

> hi I have been trying get my xserver running ...it keeps complaining 
> that it cannot find the mouse device ...I gone through dpkg-reconfigure 
> xserver-xorg about 15 times trying to pick /dev/psaux with PS/2 mouse,  
> I tried the USB mouse configuration when I do not even have a usb mouse 
> and xserver starts up, but LOL with no mouse or keyboard working, any clues?
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