"John A. Morrow, Jr." wrote:
Hi John,
I interspersed two comments that may be of help.
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> I tried editing
> /etc/X11/XF86Config but so far without success. The original values
> were
>
> Section "Pointer"
> Protocol "Microsoft"
> Device "/dev/mouse"
On my system /dev/mouse is a soft link to /dev/psaux and I have the
mouse on it�s PS port. Perhaps you can try to create a link between
/dev/ttyS1 and dev/mouse?
>
> With the above settings I could start X Windows but could only
> navigate with the keyboard. When I stumbled upon <CTRL><ALT><F1> to
> exit, I saw an error message of "Warning: /dev/mouse unable to get
> status of mouse fd (Input/Output error)."
>
> I substituted ttys1
Linux is caps-sensitive, so you had better used ttyS1 here.
> in lieu of mouse but then X wouldn't start at
> all, leaving me with a "Fatal Server Error: Cannot open mouse
> (Input/Output error)."
>
> Can I change gpm settings to fix this?
No need to do that, gpm provides mouse functions to the console.
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