On Sat, 1 May 1999, John A. Morrow, Jr. wrote:
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> to COM 2, IRQ 3. COM 1 is not used because of the bad serial port on
the
> I/O card.
>
> the screen, daring me to make it move. I tried editing
> /etc/X11/XF86Config but so far without success. The original values
were
>
> Section "Pointer"
> Protocol "Microsoft"
> Device "/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 in lieu of mouse but then X wouldn't start at all,
^^^^^ Try spelling it right. That's /dev/ttyS1
Or to use /dev/mouse,
rm -f /dev/mouse
ln -s /dev/ttyS1 /dev/mouse
> leaving me with a "Fatal Server Error: Cannot open mouse (Input/Output
> error)."
>
> Can I change gpm settings to fix this? How do I change gpm settings?
> What is gpm?
General puropse mouse for the text consoles
> Thanks in advance,
>
> John Morrow
> Bellemont, AZ
Please don't repeat yourself in HTML. We can read text. :-)
Lawson
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