modprobe: can't locate module psmouse
I just moved my ps2 intellimouse (scroll mouse) from my tower to my Slack laptop-I did have a ps2 3 button mouse. Sometimes it behaves ok and sometimes (in GUI) menu's pop up for no reason and all I can do to get back to the console is CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE. The mouse is detected in console but it won't select/copy text.
When my pc boot, I see the following error modprobe: can't locate module psmouse When I run setup in pkgtool for mouse I chose ps2 mouse again (ps2 intellimouse messes up my system even more than it is. Is there another way of specifying the console mouse? |
Can you post the mouse section of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file?
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Do you mean how to choose the mouse protocol on text mode (using gpm) or X? Both have different configurations.
In case of gpm (text mode) you could run: gpm -t help | less That will list all support protocols and then you can edit the correspnding line in /etc/rc.d/rc.gpm (I think that's what pkgtool does). To configure X, you've to edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file as datadriven said and choose the protocol there. You can find about different protocols here: http://www.x.org/X11R6.8.2/doc/mouse.html Most configurations will work with IMPS/2 or ExplorerPS/2 protocols. It's known that sometimes gpm can conflict in X, so you could try stopping it with: /etc/rc.d/rc.gpm stop And try to see if X behaves correctly. Regarding the psmouse module, I don't have the original kernel in my machines, but maybe it's compiled directly into the kernel and not as module. |
I think gpm is conflicting with X since X works (and scrolls) in X at times but never in the console. I'll try stopping gpm. Thanx!
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