Debian on old toshiba libretto, mouse error

[jokr004]

Ok, I have this old libretto 50ct that I've installed sarge on. I installed the base system and xserver and icewm... Initially, I got an error on startx, but all I had to do was change the mouse device in xorg.conf to /dev/psaux after doing an mdetect. X started up, but when I go to use the mouse, any time I move it left or down, it goes straight down to the bottom left corner, plus the right and left click buttons don't always work. The mouse is one of those joystick kind of things that are on some laptops, I don't know if that helps.

[aliov]

Probably you are using the wrong driver,go to /dev/input and see what your kernel detect as a input device, replace it in xorg.conf (something like /dev/input/mice.

hope this help

[jokr004]

Yeah, it was origionally set in xorg.conf as /dev/input/mice, but that caused an error when I did startx,
here is what is in /dev/input/
:/dev/input$ ls
event0 event2 js0 js2 mice mouse1 mouse3
event1 event3 js1 js3 mouse0 mouse2

I changed the /dev/input/mice in xorg.conf to /dev/psaux which is what I got from an mdetect but I also got intellimouse from mdetect, not /dev/intellimouse, just intellimouse

[IsaacKuo]

There should be two "settings" in the mouse section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf for you to play with. One is the device, and the other is the protocol. Since the cursor does move around when you move the thumbstick, you seem to have the device correct. However, the protocol seems to be wrong. I think the most common PS/22 protocol is called something like "ImPS/2". The "Intellimouse" protocol is more common with serial port mice, I think.

Also, there might be a BIOS setting which can switch between a "legacy" serial port mode and a PS/2 port mode for the mouse.