On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, William English wrote:
> I have some probs with my mouse! When I do ctrl + alt F1 I get this
> stuff.
>
> (--) SVGA: PCI: NVidia Unknown chipset (0x0100) rev 16, Memory @
> 0xd0000000,
> 0xa0000000
>
> few lines up from this it says ^ ^^
>
> Warning: /dev/mouse unable to get status of mouse fd (Inappropriate
> ioctl for
> device)
>
> Fatal server error:
> xf86SetupMouse: Cannot determine the mouse protocol
>
> When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
> the full server output, not just the last messages
>
> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
> [ekg@localhost ekg]
>
> Its a ms intellimouse. It worked before I installed these drivers for
> my geforce 256 card by nvidia. It works in the console still and dmesg
> says its PS/2. In the xf86config it says its PS/2 also. I also turned
> it to Auto to see what would work. Thats when i got the above!
>
> Please help!!!
> Thanks in advance!
Your XF86Config was changed, you need to reset the /dev/mouse link
ln -sf /dev/psaux /dev/mouse
I'm not sure why it changed
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