by plamber.. » Mon, 09 Jun 1997 04:00:00
I've got a nice, Mouse Systems PS/2 mouse plugged into my PS/2 mouse port.
X doesn't like my video card, so I haven't even gotten that far. However,
the console mouse program doesn't like it at all--the pointer moves when
I move the mouse, but often snaps back to the lower-left corner, or jumps
to the left side. It does this often enough that it is unusable.
Anyone have any suggestions? Has anyone seen this behavior before?
--Paul L.
by Bob Niels » Mon, 09 Jun 1997 04:00:00
>Anyone have any suggestions? Has anyone seen this behavior before?
>--Paul L.
What does 'ls -al /dev/mouse' say?
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by plamber.. » Tue, 10 Jun 1997 04:00:00
I'm using the default kernel installed with RedHat 4.2, which I believeQuote:> Do you have support for this mouse compiled into your kernel?
> What does 'ls -al /dev/mouse' say?
Tell me where I'm wrong. :-)
--Paul
by M. Buchenried » Tue, 10 Jun 1997 04:00:00
Michael
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1. Problems switching from bus mouse to serial
I'm running the Slackware 3.0 version of Linux 2.0.0 on a 66 MHz Pentium
with 48Meg of RAM.
I recently purchased a Kensington Expert Mouse (trackball). Previously
I had a Logitech bus mouse which worked fine under Linux. I can't
figure out how to reconfigure Linux and X to use the new device. I had
to replace the old bus mouse card with a "serial card" which comes with
the "bus" version of the Kensington device and which I configured for
IRQ 5 and address 338 (this works in Windows 3.11). This serial card
just provides another serial port (my other 2 are in use) and the
trackball emulates the Microsoft protocol at 1200 baud.
* I changed /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config pointer section to a new
Protocol "Microsoft" (was "Busmouse") and left Device as "/dev/mouse".
I added a line "BaudRate 1200".
* I edited /etc/rc.d/rc.modules to enable "/sbin/modprobe mouse" (was
"/sbin/modprobe busmouse").
* I changed the symbolic link in /dev/mouse to point to "/dev/cua4".
* I edited /etc/rc.d/rc.serial to add a line:
${SETSERIAL} /dev/cua4 uart 16550 port 0x338 irq5 and ran the rc.serial
script.
It doesn't work! When I boot, I see the message: "Can't locate module
mouse." I DO see the list of serial ports with cua4 set properly. If I
startx, I get the X background color; but no sign of a mouse and I have
to reset to get out of the lockup.
Does anybody have any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
Dick Allen
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