Logan,
Potato is pretty stale at this point. Unless you were installing a
critical server, I would strongly suggest Woody at this point. I've
been following it for quite some time, and the only changes I can recall
in the last month or so were for the recent apache fubar, and then only
under the "security" source (Which, BTW, you should always have in your
sources.list if you didn't know already).
Just moving up to woody will give you version 4 of XFree86. That alone
should fix your mouse funkiness. Especially if you have a working
XFree86 config from a previous Linux install.
Thus spake Logan on the 23 day of the 06 month in the year 2002:
> I am using Debian Potato Stable, which, in turn, uses XFree86
> 3.3.6. I switched from SuSE 7.2 Professional to Debian and I can't
> remember the old, yet stable ways. (I knew I should have kept my old
> XF86Config files, but I didn't...grrr on me.) I want to keep this box
> pure for a bit, before I change my /etc/apt/sources.list to allow for
> unstable regalia. But even when I ran SuSE 6.2 (XFree86 3.3.x I can't
> remember,) my middle button worked perfectly, so I need 3.3.6 help, but
> thanks anyway! Worse comes to worse, I will just do the two button,
> click thing at home, for pasting.
>
> Logan
>
> P.S. As a side note I am not a "Doom/Quake," flavor gamer, but
> "Civilization, A Call to Power," is working perfectly on this box... too
> bad Loki went Tango Uniform. Of course, I shouldn't mourn too
> much,since I am not an avid gamer, but I appreciate what Loki was doing,
> but I have yet to make it one level past the Medusa in Nethack! So, I
> will keep pounding NetHack before moving on. Even worse, are my high
> scores in NetHack, since my highest numerical score is 100k+ with a
> tourist (yes, an embarrasing tourist) who found a "wand of wishing" on
> the 2nd level followed by my second high score of barely 10K... ugh
> yasd!
> --
> 4:20pm up 11:54, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.10, 0.09
> You can rent this space for only $5 a week.
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