Richard I'm sorry. I took your "learned friend comment" harshly. Maybe I am a little
too defensive. With all the help I'm getting and the fact that I always land face down
when I try something new in Linux, makes it easy to feel like a burdon sometimes (as
we've discussed before), so maybe that contributes to the over-sensitivity.
The mouse problem is fixed. The connector was in upside down and com1 is actually
ttyS1 (don't ask me how, but it's working). If I had known a little more about Linux
and actually had a working mouse with this system at some point I may have looked
sooner. Thanks for the help. Like I said before, it had to be something totally
rediculous.
BTW, this mouse is connected to the serial port via the adaptor we spoke of and I have
checked both the ps/2 and MS protocols. Both work fine.
I'm now trying to install StarOffice. When I click on setup nothing happens. The last
thing I di was to decline when it asked if I wanted it to set up /root/soffice51. I
forget why i had to do that. But I didn't proceed with the install. I also cp'd the
install files to my dir and tried running the install script from there. But still
nothing. So I am assuming it isn't in the /dev/cdrom file.
Anyone know what's happening???
TIA.
John
Richard Adams wrote:
> 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
> >
>
> --
> Regards Richard
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in
the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
