On Wed Jan 06 1999 at 22:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> its a serial mouse ... im absolutely sure of it ... gpm was never running in
> the first place either. i tried to start gpm and it wouldnt work.Gpm would st
> art , but no 'pointer' was ever visible.
You'll need to start gpm up somewhere in your rc bootup scripts...
> Its slakware 3.5.
with slugware it is probably /etc/rc.d/rc.local
(using slugware is probably your biggest problem, but let's not get
into distro wars :-)
> I tried the sym
> link as well at first.. but could not get the mouse to work at all. in the
> slakware setup I chose /dev/cua0 (ttyS0) as the
> port the mouse is on. but to no avail.
It's ps/2 mouse, and /dev/cua* and /dev/ttyS* are for _serial_ mice.
Use /dev/psaux - that's the ps/2 port. Oh, and you MUST run a kernel
that has support for psaux mice either compiled into the kernel or
available as a module.
> I can use it in the BIOS, but not in linux , it worked well in
> windows ( I hear so often ) any thoughts ??
Yes -- use the correct mouse device! :)
> > Make sure that /dev/mouse exists as a symbolic link to /dev/psaux (you
> > obviously have a ps/2 mouse on that box).
> >
> > Make sure that gpm is being started up correctly using the correct
> > mount type.
(err, I meant "mouse type" - see "gpm -t help" for the available
types).
Cheers
Tony
