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by **Barrett Cervenk** » Thu, 15 Oct 1998 04:00:00

I installed RH5.1 with no problem but I can't get the mouse working in
XF86. It's a PS/2 Logitech Mouseman and I've tried every combination in
the xf86config file. I think the problem lies in the fact that it's a
ps/2 mouse and /dev/mouse is a symbolic link to /dev/cua0 which is com1,
right? What is the correct port that it should be pointing to?

by **Greg Hil** » Thu, 15 Oct 1998 04:00:00

I have the same problem. Is there any help out there???

Thankx,
Greg.

>I installed RH5.1 with no problem but I can't get the mouse working in
>XF86. It's a PS/2 Logitech Mouseman and I've tried every combination in
>the xf86config file. I think the problem lies in the fact that it's a
>ps/2 mouse and /dev/mouse is a symbolic link to /dev/cua0 which is com1,
>right? What is the correct port that it should be pointing to?

by **Kwan Low** » Thu, 15 Oct 1998 04:00:00

> I installed RH5.1 with no problem but I can't get the mouse working in
> XF86. It's a PS/2 Logitech Mouseman and I've tried every combination in
> the xf86config file. I think the problem lies in the fact that it's a
> ps/2 mouse and /dev/mouse is a symbolic link to /dev/cua0 which is com1,
> right? What is the correct port that it should be pointing to?

You can try the following:
Login as root.
cd to the /dev directory.
rm modem
ln -s psaux modem

This will create the link to the ps2 port.

by **Raymund dos Remedio** » Sat, 17 Oct 1998 04:00:00

^^-- lines removed -- ^^

Quote:> You can try the following:
> Login as root.
> cd to the /dev directory.
> rm modem

I think that this should be mouse instead of modem.

cd /dev
rm mouse
ln -s /dev/psaux mouse

Quote:> ln -s psaux modem

> This will create the link to the ps2 port.

Also make sure that when you run the kernel config
that you have the PS/2 mouse support enabled before
you do this. I recently had to do the same thing
because I needed to enable 2 modems on my PC and
I only had external modems available to me. So I got
a PS/2 mouse and replaced my serial mouse.

Hope this helps.

Raymund

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