[mouse problems in ydl]

[Jonathan Walton]

I had a different mouse problem on YDL, relating to the trackpad... but
I wonder if my fix would help you.  Specifically, if I didn't have a
real mouse plugged in, my trackpad wouldn't work.  I solved it by adding
the following to /etc/sysconfig/mouse.  [to be honest, just running the
'ln -s' once by hand was probably sufficient]:

  # Probably doesn't belong here, but it'll work.  On powerbook without
  # mouse plugged in on boot, we don't get a /dev/mouse... but X and a
  # few others expect it.  Just hack it the same way /usr/lib/yi/mouse.py
  # does it
  if grep -i "PowerBook" /proc/cpuinfo >/dev/null; then
   if [ ! -e /dev/mouse ]; then
    ln -s /dev/input/mice /dev/mouse
   fi
  fi

Good luck,
  Jonathan

> On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Benjamin Dembroski wrote:
> > One wee problem. If I use the graphical login option to X, the mouse
> > pointer is dead. All is fine with the text based login. ANy suggestions
> > where to start? I googled looking for the answer, but the link to the
> > solutions page in YDL seems to be broken. (points to a page discussing
> > updating to YDL 3).
> 
>Mike Newman said:
> i have almost exactly the same problem, except that it only happens if a
> logout and try to login again. ie: the first boot goes normally.