what is the naming scheme for the usb ports on your computer? My mouse is broke again. --only has vertical motion and now only starts if I startx.

I was going to give it a more specific assignment than /dev/mouse in xorgconfig to see if I could convince it to stay working.

If you have any other suggestions I am open to them as well.

Thanx

Try using /dev/input/mice. If you are having trouble with no mouse while running in console-only, it may be an issue with gpm. Sometimes you must disable gpm so that mice will work correctly when using X.
You might try running mouseconfig again and see if that fixes it.

I ran mouseconfig and said no to starting gpm at boot time and it is ignoring me. How do I stop the gpm service?

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I did man gpm and used killall gpm to stop it, but how do keep it from starting in the first place?

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ok, so I did mouseconfig again except this time after I said no and I had command line again I did this "vi /etc/rc.d/rc.gpm" so I could see what the file looked like. Do I comment out the whole thing or would I just comment out the line "/usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/mouse -t imps2"? And what is it with the choosing imps2 for a usb mouse? Isn't there a usb choice?

To disable gpm from starting run as root:
This makes it unexecutable, so it won't run on startup.

In your xorg.conf you should choose 'auto' not 'imps2' or anything like that. Really I would run 'xorgsetup' and let that set things up.

"In your xorg.conf you should choose 'auto' not 'imps2' or anything like that. Really I would run 'xorgsetup' and let that set things up."

What I was saying was - in the file that is created with either xorgconfig or xorgsetup it sets the mouse as imps2. In other words the line found in /etc/rc.d/rc.gpm "/usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/mouse -t imps2" Is generated by those scripts not me. I chose usb in mouseconfig and it still yields the same result when you look in the file. So now I was looking for what types are available for the -t switch so I can manually configure rc.gpm

The man page said I could use -t help to find that info, but I have yet to figure out how to keep the info from scrolling by so fast. I used more, but I didn't use it right so now I have to look for the right syntax and what folder or document to find the exact -t that I need.

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