[ILUG-BOM] Re: mouse not working in KDE

On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 21:31:13 +0530 (IST) Philip S Tellis wrote:

Sometime Today, Parul Mathur assembled some asciibets to say:

Asciibets, Philip? Shouldn't it be asciibits or tasty asciinybbles maybe?

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Whenever I run KDE, the mouse does not respond but it does change

Does it work in the console?

Nopes, it doesn't.

Do you have gpm running?

Yes. What does it do?

You don't need a mouse to get a mouse icon.

One learns something new everyday!

Make sure that your mouse works elsewhere, to isolate the problem either to the mouse driver, or to KDE. Philip

The problem was with the mouse driver. I ran mouseconfig and specified the driver as "MS Intellimouse 2.1 or higher".

Thanks.

Parul