please help

[wadada]

Hello comerades

Although this is more or less a technical problem, I guess those 
running GRASS on Linux platform might have come across such problem 
in one way or the other. Since yesterday my mouse has remained 
inactive anytime I try to use the facilities of XWindows. In view of 
this problem I am unable to run graphics program in Grass. 

Upon invoking Xwindows in Linux I get the message 'cannot open mouse 
device'. I am using a microsoft compactible mouse located at Com1. 
Thus my configuration in Xconfig is "Microsoft   /dev/ttS0". This has 
been a very good companion ever since I stated working with Linux. It 
all started when for some reason I had to reinstall my Linux/Grass. 
I had no problems at all with the above configuration during 
my first installation of GRASS/Linux. Despite this error message I 
always see the mouse active at the root console. Everything works 
fine with the mouse in DOS too. So I can just figure out the source 
of this problem. With "Microsoft  /dev/ttS1 ",i.e for COM2, I am able 
to get into Xwindows alright the my mouse remain inactive. Well maybe 
some of you might have encountered this problem along the line. Any 
help will be much appreciated. Thanks for reading.

wadada        e-mail: agyei at net2.eos.uoguelph.ca