On Sun, 05 Mar 2000, Antonino Sabetta wrote:
> While waiting for someone telling me how to teach my machine to
> shutdown (Mitac 6133), I'm asking you another help.
> To work more confortably I've plugged a PC keybord into the PS2 port which
> my ps2 mouse used to be plugged in, so now I have to use the serial port
> for a ps2 mouse (with a proper adapter). I believe this is possible some
> way but, at the moment I still can't get it work.
>
First, before you go through all this hassle, have you considered getting a PS2
keyboard/mouse splitter. These cables only cost about $5 and split the
keyboard and mouse pins into separate plugs so each can be connected at the
same time.
> I've removed the old symlink: > > rm /dev/mouse
>
> and made a new one
>
> ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/mouse
>
> With gpm it works fine but with Xwindows it doesn't.
> I tried to kill gpm before entering X, but it's the same.
> Note that I've also tried to reconfigure the protocol of my mouse (in
> /dev/XF86Config) but without any success.
> Maybe I've tried the wrong one.
> Does anyone know the right things to do?
> Thanks in advance.
>
> AS
Yeh, the entry in XF86Config is the problem. The thing is that a serial mouse
setup has far more entries than a PS2 (baud rate, etc.). Make a backup copy of
XF86Config and then use Xconfigurator or xf86config to setup the mouse. Either
of these know the correct entries for a serial mouse.
Adrian
