> 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.
I do appreciate both pieces of advice. I wish I knew a little more about this.
I think the answer here is that I need to know how a mouse actually works with Linux.
Maybe
this is outside the scope of this list but I will take a stab.
I assume that there is a constant voltage going thru the thing (or maybe one is
generated as
movement occurs). There is a daemon that watches the mouse input for movement (gpm?).
It then
translates the movement of the three wires into coordinates (all mouses that I've
cleaned had
only three rollers touching the ball). One copy goes to stdout and the other goes to
some other
daemon???
There is a file that acts as the mouse i/o (/dev/mouse). This dev file is symbolically
linked
to the actual dev file that the mouse is on.
Is the problem so many people are having caused by sharing the standard input???
> > > 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).
Ok I think I know how I got this confused. Setserial shows that I have 2 ttySx used.
But these
aren't actual serial ports?? ISAs and PCIs aren't serial connectors (they look
parallel to
me:}) Yea. I'm lost. Is there someplace someone knows of that I can quickly read up on
this? I
don't wanna take up too much time and bandwidth on this list. Or maybe it would be
good for
some of the other newbies here??? Yer call.
> > 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.
So does this mean that the changes I've made haven't taken affect? Ok. I just killed
gpm but
how do I restart it? I don't see anything in man gpm that tells how to do this.
So does this mean that when I did
gpm -t ms
I needed to kill and restart gpm to see the results. If so, sorry I didn't know that.
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