My incorrect syntax was the culprit. Changing "/dev/ttys1" to
"/dev/ttyS1" did the trick.
Thanks!
John
Christoph Hammann wrote:
> "John A. Morrow, Jr." wrote:
>
> Hi John,
>
> I interspersed two comments that may be of help.
> --snip--
> > 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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