Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 09:27:44 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gnome upgrade killed mouse Message-ID: <2071D396F71C14A7F6C2EE9D@utd59514.utdallas.edu> In-Reply-To: <44eka4kwhj.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <76D1C43FD1B834FB1A1991D5@[10.110.3.244]> <44eka4kwhj.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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--On Tuesday, July 12, 2005 09:03:04 -0400 Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> writes: > >> I ran the gnome_upgrade.sh script and now my mouse doesn't. Even if I >> run Xorg -configure and start X with the generated xorg.conf.new file, >> the mouse doesn't work. >> >> I can see the mouse being detected in the dmesg.boot, so it appears to >> be a problem with Xorg rather than device detection. Any suggestions >> would be welcomed, since my desktop is essentially useless at this >> point. (I'm sending this from my Winbloze laptop.) >> >> One other question. After running the gnome_upgrade.sh script, when I >> run portupgrade there are updates to gnome and lots of gstreamer >> plugin stuff. Is it safe to run those through portupgrade? Or do I >> need to run the gnome_upgrade.sh script again? > > Are you running moused? I am now. I was not before. The strange thing is, the mouse worked perfectly without moused before the upgrade. Now it works perfectly as well, but only if I am running moused. > If so, does the mouse work on the console? It does now. I did not before I ran moused. > Does the mouse work in a simpler X environment, like twm? No, it didn't. It does now. Something obviously changed. Or maybe I was just "lucky" before. :-) Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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