One situation I used to run into with older versions of Slack was if gsm was running for console mouse support it screwed up the mouse in X. From a console prompt issue: ps ax | grep gsm If you see a gsm running, kill the process and see if your mouse comes back. On Tue, 03 October 2000, "Stephen B Knewtson" wrote: > > Hi, > > I recently installed Slackware 7.1 on an HP Pavilion. I ran the x86fconfig program to set up the video and tried startx. > GNOME came up ok but the mouse doesn't work. I don't really know where to start. What things should I be checking for? > What's the best way to go about isolating the problem? > > thanks, > stephen Jack Ungerleider - The Ungerleider Group Creative Solutions for Cooperative Computing jack at jacku.com www.jacku.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org