I have a motherboard that has a PS/2 mouse port. It's *not* an ATX motherboard, though - the PS/2 port and the parallel port are together on a metal insert that goes in one of the card slot holes in the case. I have a TrackMan that has a PS/2 port: with an adapter it works fine in the serial port, but I want to free up that port and use the PS/2 port on the motherboard.
I tried plugging the mouse in, powering up the system, and configuring XFree86 to use /dev/psaux or /dev/psmouse, but no dice. I also tried "cat /dev/psaux" and moving the trackball and pushing buttons, and saw nothing - I expected to see gibberish. So maybe it isn't working at all! I'd appreciate any suggestions for 1) testing to see if my PS/2 port even works, 2) configuring Linux to find my PS/2 port, and/or 3) getting it to work with X. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339 voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded upon the Christian Religion." - John Adams -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
