Greg Scharrer wrote: > > I am having trouble getting my mouse to work. I have a PS/2 mouse port on > COM1 (IRQ4). When the system boots is gives a message "psaux PS/2 auxillary > pointing device detected ... driver installed". The node /dev/psaux has a > major 10 and minor 1, which is what the Busmouse HOWTO says it should. > However, /dev/mouse is linked to /dev/ttyS0 (major 4, minor 64). Do I need > to re-link /dev/mouse to /dev/psaux, or do I need to redefine ttyS0 to > match psaux? How would I do the relink? The Busmouse HOWTO also says that > PS/2 mice always use IRQ12 but mine does not. The mouse got detected when I > ran gpmconfig. > > I now have a problem getting into my system though. I tried to set up X > before I solved the mouse problem. Now X comes up with the login. I can > login, but then I can't do anything. How to I get back to the console?
Does ctrl+alt+F1 work to get you to console? Kent