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I've got a standard microsoft PS/2 (auxialary port) mouse, and it goes
crazy in both Xwindows and in a normal shell upon startup (using gbm, I
believe, the thing that lets you cut and paste in a non-xwindows shell).
I plugged my father's serial mouse into port 1 (com) and then setup linux
for a serial mouse,a ndit worked.  
   My mouse works fine in Win95, and all my other DOS applications, though
Linux is screwed up.  What's up with this?  And yes, I recompiled the
kernel- is there anything I should do after I recompile the kernel?
Besides reboot?  It finished ompiling so I assumed that it had done all
the necessary direcotyr manipulation... thanks in advance!

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My PS/2-mouse works fine for me with gpm and X after doing some changes
to the command line parameters of gpm and the XF86Config:

1. gpm is called from rc.local on my machine, so the following line exists
   in it:

   gpm -m /dev/psaux -R -t ps2 &

   description (what I know about ;-)
   -> '-m /dev/psaux': use mouse file /dev/psaux (the device driver is
      located 'behind' this)
   -> '-R': share the mouse on a fifo file (you'll need this for using X
      during active gpm), be careful, some older versions of gpm don't
      provide this feature and you'll have to disable gpm for X.
   -> '-t ps2': set mouse type to PS/2
   -> '&': you know ... :)

2. the poining device section in XF86Config should look like this:

   Section "Pointer"
       Protocol    "MouseSystems"
       Device      "/dev/gpmdata"

   description
   -> note, that you have to use a MouseSystems protocol, gpm's '-R'
      option shares the mouse in graphical mode on a fifo called
      '/dev/gpmdata' with this protocol
   -> you have to create this fifo once 'by hand': 'mkfifo /dev/gpmdata'

Hope this helps!

Alex.