Very Computer

by **time travelle** » Tue, 10 Oct 2000 04:00:00

Sometime between my installation of Linux and a week or so ago, my mouse
cursor disappeared. Used setup to try and reconfigure, and the autoprobe
finds it and reports back as MS compatible, but the cursor just doesn't show
up.
Also when I StartX, the cursor is there, but not response to mouse movement.
Do X and the terminal interface have separate access to mouse?

thanks

Len.Ralph

by **Giacomo Catenazz** » Sat, 14 Oct 2000 04:00:00

> Sometime between my installation of Linux and a week or so ago, my mouse
> cursor disappeared. Used setup to try and reconfigure, and the autoprobe
> finds it and reports back as MS compatible, but the cursor just doesn't show
> up.
> Also when I StartX, the cursor is there, but not response to mouse movement.
> Do X and the terminal interface have separate access to mouse?

> thanks

> Len.Ralph

X use different mouse drivers than the virtual terminal.
The virtual terminal (the text mode in linux) use normally the gpm
driver.
Sometime (in my computer is 50%) the gpm is incompatible with the X
driver.
Thus try to disinstall gpm ('/etc/init.d/gpm stop' or
'/etc/rc.d/init.d/gpm stop'
or ...)

giacomo

Very Computer

my mouse cursor disappeared??

my mouse cursor disappeared??

my mouse cursor disappeared??