[ale] X configuration problem

[David Corbin]

On Saturday 07 January 2006 04:21 pm, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> David Corbin wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > My system runs Gentoo/x.org X11.
> >
> > 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".
> >
> > The file is attached.  Any suggestions appreciated.
>
> Hrm.
>
> 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.
>

Well, i got GPM to work, but X mousing still doesn't work even with that GPM 
relay data.

David