On Thu, 03 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> Richard Adams wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> > > > So judging by what you say, the other guy needs to do;
> > > >
> > > > cd /dev
> > > > rm mouse
> > > > ln -s /dev/ttyS0 mouse
> > > > gpm -t ms
> > > >
> > >
> > > Actually I am the other guy (I think -- there are two threads on this right
>now.) But
> > > anyway I tried this a few days ago when you recommended it. Only it used psaux
>instead
> > > of ttyS0, which is the slot my eth0 is in.
> >
> > I dont know who is more confused you or me now, how can your eth0 be in a slot
> > which does not exsist,? all psaux is, is a device, a ps2 mouse always uses IRQ
> > 12, i have never seen a computer with a ISA or PCI slot for a ps2 mouse, now do
> > you mean your eth0 card uses IRQ12,?.
>
> Ok.... how bout we are both really confused and it's mostly my fault:}.
>
> What I was saying here is that you recommended (last week) that I do:
>
> ln -s /dev/psaux mouse
>
> So I tried that. But it didn't work.
I wrote that because you said it was a ps2 mouse, anyway, i also wrote the
commands above, which are for a serial mouse, considering what you now say,
that should work.
So what i did was give you the best of both worlds, in other words one set of
commands for the ps2 mouse and one set for a serial mouse.
> > A question, do you then still have 2 comm ports available now that you say the
> > mouse connects to the motherboard in this way.?
> >
>
> Yea. I have 2 available. The other 2 ports house my eth0 and ppp0.
Aaarg, i think your basic idea of what goes where needs a little bit of help,
a comm port is a serial port, an ethernet adaptor is NOT a commport, it can be
told to use an IRQ which a normal commport uses, but normaly speaking a
ethernet adaptor goes into either an ISA slot (those long black slots) or a PCI
(one of those white things not as large as the ISA slot).
> BTW, I am assuming that I don't need to restart the computer everytime I change the
>mouse
> settings. I know, I know, I thought I better ask since Kudzu detects the mouse.
No a reboot is not nessasary, however if you have the default runlevel set to
GUI mode, in otherwords you boot striat into X then you will have to kill all
the servers after editing XF86Config to make the changes take effect.
Normal console mode operation, Eg, you issue "startx" then there is no X
processes to kill, however if you change the mouse operaton configuration, you
MUST kill gpm and restart it.
>
> John
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