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This is nuts.  Every time I set up Linux on a system that
doesn't have a serial mouse, I can't get X Windows working.  
Only this time it's worse.

I installed from Walnut Creek's Slackware 2.3 CD on my Gateway
2000 P75 system at work.  Before upgrading the kernel (using
the one on the CD), X came up just fine.  The mouse is one of
those 6-pin DIN InPort mice.

Then I upgraded to 1.2.11 (from 1.2.8), and compiled in the
PS/2 feature, as mentioned in the HowTo.  No go.  When gpm
runs, it acts fine, but if I move the house, the text cursor is
all haywire, and when I attempt to run X, it says Device or
Resource Busy.

I then went back to the same kernel from the CD... it does the
SAME THING now.  What's the deal?

On another machine here, it has an actual Bus Mouse (9 pin
DIN), and the very same thing happens, when using the Bus Mouse
settings.

Does anybody know how to make this work???  Please??

Rob

   This is nuts.  Every time I set up Linux on a system that
   doesn't have a serial mouse, I can't get X Windows working.  
   Only this time it's worse.

   I installed from Walnut Creek's Slackware 2.3 CD on my Gateway
   2000 P75 system at work.  Before upgrading the kernel (using
   the one on the CD), X came up just fine.  The mouse is one of
   those 6-pin DIN InPort mice.

   Then I upgraded to 1.2.11 (from 1.2.8), and compiled in the
   PS/2 feature, as mentioned in the HowTo.  No go.  When gpm
   runs, it acts fine, but if I move the house, the text cursor is
   all haywire, and when I attempt to run X, it says Device or
   Resource Busy.

It sounds like the problem is that you have gpm running.
I fired that up for the first time with this recent installation
I was doing, and X failed because of the mouse with *exactly* the
same symptons.  Uncommented gpm, reboot, no problems here...

Bill

/etc/init.d/selection stop

After that, i can start X. Of course, cut/paste doesn't work anymore :-(

Joop

It's still not working. When I run startx, the X window pops up,
THere is just no responding from the mouse at all, without any message.

Somebody please  help.

Thanks!

Quote:>The Microsoft PS/2 mouse is not working under my Micron P100 system.
>The Linux kernel is 1.2.13. I tried almost every thing, recompiling  the
>kernel, changing the mouse feature with both xf86config and kernel config,
>disabling the gpm .....

Thanks.

pingji

I have a PS/2 style mouse on my Gateway.  I can get gpm to
work fine by specifying gpm -t 'ps2' on the command line, since
I don't load it on startup. BUT if I try to run X, I get no reponse
from the mouse.  The XF86Config file lists the pointing device as a
PS/2  mouse using /dev/mouse as the device. Device /dev/mouse points
to the correct device psaux.

I've looked in all the FAQs I could find, but have yet to find an
appropriate solution. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Scott