For both hamm and slink installs: On installing the X11 packages (WindowMaker -- hoping to follow it with fvwm2 or Gnome), my mouse and my modem stopped working. When I looked into possible causes I discovered that somewhere in the install, /dev/mouse => /dev/psaux is changed to /dev/mouse => /dev/ttyS0.
This causes a few problems in that my modem is connected to what the BIOS calls COM1 (ttyS0) and the mouse is connected to a 6-pin mini DIN receptacle attached to the motherboards PS/2 mouse port. Until the X11 install runs, both the modem and the mouse work properly. After, neither works. I tried re-symlinking /dev/mouse to /dev/psaux BOHICA:/dev$ rm mouse BOHICA:/dev$ ln -s /dev/mouse /dev/psaux but for some reason this causes /dev/psaux to link to /dev/ttyS0. So now I have: /dev/mouse => /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/psaux => /dev/ttyS0 Can anyone help me resolve this? I am quite out of my depth here (not that I was too deep to begin with). - BOHICA --------------------------------------- please CC: me on all replies.
