The box (as you call it) is actually just a hardwired adaptor. No protocol change.
Just connector to connector. No components.
And my mouse is both ps/2 and serial compatible. I have used it with both on
Windows. And I have used it as a ps/2 on my girlfriends HP Pavilion.
Richard Adams wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 03:31:41AM -0700, John Starkey wrote:
> > > My mouse was detected by Kudzu and "supposedly" configured. But it won't
> > > do anything in X.
> > >
> > > I tried:
> > >
> > > setserial -g /dev/psaux
> > >
> > > and rec'd the following error:
> > >
> > > Cannot get serial info: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> > >
> > > man ioctl
> > >
> > > is pretty confusing still......
> > >
> > > Anyone know what's going on here????
> > >
> > > And does anyone know how to get out of Gnome when you have no mouse???
> > >
> > > I'm running RH6.1, Microsoft compat. ps/2 and serial using a serial
> > > adaptor.
> >
> > Whoa. This might be the source of some confusion here. As I read this
> > it looks like what you have is:
> > PS/2 mouse -> adaptor -> DB9 serial port
> > Is that right? If so there are two possibilities:
> > 1) Treat this mouse as any other serial mouse.
> > 2) Remove the adaptor and plug it into the PS/2 port.
> >
> > The reason the second option is there is this: I've encountered a few
> > PS/2 mice that just would *not* work through one of those adaptors.
> > But for the moment we'll suppose that this one will work. In that case,
> > first check and see where /dev/mouse is linked to. It should be linked
> > to /dev/ttySx where x indicates which serial port it is. If the serial
> > port that it's plugged into would be COM1 under DOS, then it'll be
> > /dev/ttyS0 under Linux. Basically, take the DOS COM port number and
> > subtract one to get the Linux /dev/ttySx x value. It looked like
> > you were trying to access either /dev/mouse (which could well be linked
> > to the wrong device) or /dev/psaux (which is the wrong device). If
> > /dev/mouse isn't linked to /dev/ttySx then it needs to be changed.
> > 'ls -l /dev/mouse' will tell you this. If it needs to be changed:
> > rm /dev/mouse
> > ln -s /dev/ttySx /dev/mouse
> > done as root will accomplish the change. And hopefully that'll get
> > things working as they should be, as well.
>
> It would seem that the only people who know about these adaptors are our
> American friends, i have never seen one and it would seem Lawson has not
> either, now taking that into consideration answering the origanal question the
> way i and LAwson did explanes the answers.
>
> Mike, you explaned just about everything, however you did not say which
> protocol is used. One would imagen from your explanation that it would be
> MicroSoft, this considering we have the mouse device linked to /dev/ttyS0.
>
> So it looks like these little adaptor boxes change the protocol from serial to
> ps2, is that correct,?? another thing is that a PS/2 mouse is an auxiliary device
> and uses irq 12 when pluged into its own socket on the motherboard.
>
> I cannot realy see the use of such a box, i mean pricewise, surlly it is cheaper
> to buy a serial mouse wich cuts out the middle man.!! I have a ps2 mouse here
> on one computer and a serial mouse on the other, they both work the same.
>
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