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Re: X problem



Run 'setup' (as root) and chose the mouse setup one... (you can also
choose Xconfigurator from here).

If you can't find your mouse, try finding something as close as
possible...
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Wesley Leonard
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Zachary Florian wrote:
> 
> so anyhow i don't know if you've read that thread where i had to delete some
> bloated file and reconfigure X but that's where i'm at... this is what i
> did: "Xconfigurator" opens up that nice tab through display with choices and
> everything... i'm going through... it's being cool, probes the hardware,
> comes up and says "PCI Entry: ATI | 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X" and "XServer:
> Mach64" next i go to the choose monitor part and of course mine isn't there,
> but that's okay cause i still got the book for it... i picked out some nice
> pretty scanning frequencies that "according to my documentation" will work
> nicely... so it does another probe thing to make sure that all will be well
> and decide upon the default screen stuff (bit depth, size, etc...) and i'm
> thinking "great this is gonna work, i'm gonna be so very very happy" and it
> wants to make sure that X is configured properly... so it boots X up with
> one of those "if you can read this click here" type windows... well i go to
> click there and (i'm sure you already know) my mouse cursor flies to the
> upper right corner of the screen... the window counts down and i return to
> Xconfigurator... could it be that maybe my mouse isn't configured correctly?
> i have an M$ Wheel Mouse with a Gateway CowBox painted on it... that should
> be just like a generic three-button PS/2 right? (the wheel clicks) i'm just
> at a loss of ideas here...
> 
> thank you for reading this message, and double thank you if you an idea for
> how i can remedy this...