On Tue, 08 Feb 2000, John Starkey wrote:
> Guys.... guys..... think mellow!!!!!
>
> My mouse supports both protocols. I tried the IRQ 12 because I have tried
> EVERYTHING that everyone has asked me to try, as well as everything the man
> pages, info pages, howtos, etc, led me to belive or ideas they sparked. I'd never
> be able to itemize the things I've done to try and fix this problem. And
> inevitably it's probably something silly. But regardless it's obvious that I've
> exhausted the resources of this group on this issue so I am on the "try anything"
> phase.
>
> As far as "dear learned friend" goes. Richard you know damned well I am a newbie.
> You (as well as several others) have been helping me since mid Dec. I had this
> same problem then but decided I didn't need a GUI (at the time) so I quit working
> on it.
Dear learned friend was meant in a "nice" way...
No there is no hidden protocol, as far i can can trace, i mean i have
read all your mails over the mouse on the archive, you are mixing up
all the commands given to you by me, Ray and Lawson, and a few others
for that matter.
Lawson has sent you a mail with it plain and simple, for a serial
mouse, after all thats what the thing seems to be, he forgot to say
you must check to see where mouse is linked to in your /dev/directory.
A serial mouse on comm1 should be;
ttyS0 -> mouse
To check that
cd /dev
ls -al mouse
rm mouse to remove it if its wrong
ln -s ttyS0 mouse
to define it again.
Remember you have to kill all the deamons Eg; gpm an X servers as per
Lawsons mail.
If that dont work, buy another mouse after all the dam things cost
about 15 bucks over here, i imagen a lot less in the states.
If that one wont work then your comm port is broken.
> Unless there is some hidden protocol for a Microsoft Basic Mouse, something is
> wrong. Unfortunately the chain of events from pointer to stdout is still vague to
> me. So I can't troubleshoot this myself. I've got three huge three-ring binders
> of stuff I printed out at work that covers Linux OS, PC hardware (Lawson
> recommended I do this) and UNIX. And still I can't find the problem. The only
> reason I haven't pulled out a continuity meter is because it worked with Windows
> on the same box.
If it works with windows it should work with linux, or at least thats
what they say.
> Ok. Thanks to everyone for the help.
You can be rest assured, joking appart, your problem can be solved.
>
> John
>
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Regards Richard
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