[ale] X configuration problem

[David Corbin]

Michael B. Trausch wrote:

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>David Corbin wrote:
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>>I have a Dell I8600.  It had an NVIDIA 32m card, and I had my X11 
>>configuration working right as it had been for years.  I upgraded my video 
>>card to an ATI 9600 Radeon 128M.  
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>>My system runs Gentoo/x.org X11.
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>>I've "spliced in" the relevant portions of an XF86Config I found on the web, 
>>and the video is working 'fine' (it may not be perfectly tuned, but it 
>>works).   However, with the new configuration, I can get neither of my two 
>>mice (touchpad, or USB mouse) to work.  As far as I can tell, I made no 
>>changes to that area of the config, and I see no errors when I do a "startx".
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>>The file is attached.  Any suggestions appreciated.
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>Hrm.
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>I can't see anything wrong in particular at the moment with the mouse
>configuration, but you may want to try something different altogether.
>See if you can run gpm to work on the mice, first.  If that works, see
>if you can get gpm to output to the gpm repeater device, and see if X11
>will read from that.  You will have to google around a bit, I don't have
>instructions handy for that at the moment.
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I can  gpm to work 'part way'.  I never get the little block cursor on 
my console, but if I move the mouse I do get "protocol errors"....


>	Later,
>	Mike
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