The issue I had involved a serial mouse and GPM. After several frustrated
attempts, I discovered (after reading the documentation of course) that in
the earlier versions of Red Hat, GPM conflicted with the mouse driver,
especially in X windows. Essentially I had no mouse functionality. By
unloading the GPM module I was able to get my mouse to work and X windows to
support it fine.
I too am fairly new to this stuff. You can count me a the apprentice to the
village idiot.
Larry Dilley
Network Administrator
USCS International
Larry_Dilley@uscs.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Painter [mailto:Jpainter@fppc.ca.gov]
Sent: Friday, October 08, 1999 3:42 PM
To: lug-nuts@cheapnet.net
Subject: [Lug-Nuts] Can of worms
Well, it looks like I opened a can of worms on that one. Actually, thanks
for the responses. I am just going to have to take baby steps through this
one. It's great being the village idiot!
I think I am going to take Brian's advice and dump Red Hat and go to Debian
or Slackware for now. Serial mice don't work in Red Hat (Or at least my past
6 installations haven't worked!). PS/2, is it the only way to go for Linux?
Anyone have a serial mouse working with no probs? No big deal, don't worry
about it for now.
To continue trying is to continue the fight against the Great Beast!
(Microsoft)
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