Hi,
I installed (for the first time) Slackware 10.2 yesterday. That time my PS2 optical mouse was working fine. Unfortunately now it is not working. When linux boots it shows -
" Starting gpm: /usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/mouse -t ps2 "

But the mouse is working in win xp.

I tested by (found in other post)-
"user@box:$ ls -l /dev/mouse"
and it shows-
"lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 (date) (time) /dev/mouse -> psaux"

I also tried -
"root@box:# cat /dev/mouse"
but no random character comes in the screen.

What's wrong? How to solve this problem?

Thanks in advance.

look at etc/rc.d/ and see if rc.gpm is executable

Look into /dev/input/

Having just got the 2.6.16.15 kernel, I briefly plugged in a USB mouse. The X-server saw it eventually and then when I tried to go back to the PS2 mouse I was using before, no go!
Very frustrating. I have read the threads about this and nothing seems to be working.
Tried reconfiguring xorg with the menu and manually
Tried reinstalling dropline and xorg
Any ideas.

I had both gpm and gpm-sample executable so have chomdded the sample out...
still not working

Any help greatly appreciated

OK... so now for the embarrassing part
Having spent the best part of the night checking the filesystem, I had the brainwave of trying the HARDWARE on another machine...... hmmmm
worked fine.
Then tried the USB mouse from the mac on the "broken" system..........hmmmmmm
worked fine
Then opened the box and checked the connections off the ps2 port to the mobo........hmmmmmm
CRACKED!

Still, I only paid $100 for the whole box, so who cares, I'll get it a brand new USB mouse tomorrow.

LESSON FOR THE DAY.......................... hardware craps out too!

Good luck guys

Sorry your fix wasnt a simple line of code, I feel for you.

I just had a powersupply literally go on fire in a pc and I'm still chasing all the glitchy hardware out.

If u are using an USB mouse and whant to make it work under X, first do a lsmod and see if you have there module called usbmouse.
If you have do a rmmod -r usbmouse and it will work just fine!!
btw in your xorg.conf file you will need the folowing:
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Before try a cat /dev/input/mice and move your mosuse. You will see random chars as you move your mouse.

Let me know if this hepls !!