by Joe Brehe » Fri, 15 Nov 1996 04:00:00
Help -
I have a gateway pentium system with a microsoft mouse that connects via
mini-DIN plug. I can't seem to get the mouse working, and I can't seem to
find any documentation mouse configuration in general. I found the busmouse
HOW-TO, but I don't believe this is a bus mouse.
When I run test-mouse, I just get a cursor in the center of the screen.
Moving the mouse, and clicking the buttons has no effect.
Can anyone help?
Thanx, Joe
by Dan Gei » Fri, 15 Nov 1996 04:00:00
: I have a gateway pentium system with a microsoft mouse that connects via
: mini-DIN plug. I can't seem to get the mouse working, and I can't seem to
: find any documentation mouse configuration in general. I found the busmouse
: HOW-TO, but I don't believe this is a bus mouse.
You're right, a busmouse has it's own proprietary card, usually, and doesn't
use the normal system resources of other mice. What you have is a PS/2
style mouse. Use the PS/2 driver and you should be fine.
Dan Geist
by John van Ve » Sat, 16 Nov 1996 04:00:00
:
: : I have a gateway pentium system with a microsoft mouse that connects via
: : mini-DIN plug. I can't seem to get the mouse working, and I can't seem to
: : find any documentation mouse configuration in general. I found the busmouse
: : HOW-TO, but I don't believe this is a bus mouse.
You might try getting a minidin to 9pin adapter, one came with the
Kensington mouse-in-a-box. And plug it into a serial port.
Comset can be used to set the serial ports as required. This is with
diLinux on a generic 586 by the way.
John, just another newbie
by W. Paul Mil » Tue, 19 Nov 1996 04:00:00
gpm -t ps2
and if you are using X config XF86Config as
Protocol "PS/2"
Device "/dev/psaux"
If you want to use gpm and X windows without removing gpm:
gpm -t ps2 -R
and configure XF86Config as
Protocol "MouseSystems"
Device "/dev/gpmdata"
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1. Need help configuring mouse, por favor...
[snip]
Pepe,
Sounds like (1) You don't have your swap enabled (check using top &
see how much swap is indicated), or (2) even with the swap you're
running out of space. You could try shutting down extraneous
processes such as X and retrying, or you could create a swapfile
(gosh, not quite sure I remember the command for that though,
maybe you use mkswap but check before you try, eh?) which you
could enable just for the period of the compile.
A swapfile is like a swap partition only it resides in a file
on your filesystem and is slower. The advantage of a swapfile
is that you don't need to repartition your filesystem just to
get some more swap. After you create the swapfile (as I say
I don't remember the command, anybody?), you enable it as you
would a partition using swapon, and hopefully away you go.
I hope this is some help!
Charlie
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