On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 03:16:08PM -0500, Karthik Vishwanath wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 6.1 does not seem to recognise my mouse correctly. I have a generic
> two-button PS/2 mouse. 'mouseconfig' hangs on running. The mouse
> cursor is not visible in the text mode and does not move in X. There is
> no mouse interrupt listed in /proc/interrupts. The device works fine in
> windows. What could the problem be? What must I try?
>
How did you set up X?
xf86config? XF86Setup?
you should be able to tell it where the mouse is. For a generic
mouse you should use the device /dev/psaux with the protocol ps/2.
The relevant lines in /etc/X11/XF86Config will be:
Section "Pointer"
Protocol "PS/2"
Device "/dev/psaux"
Emulate3Buttons
Emulate3Timeout 50
EndSection
to get the mouse running in console mode, you use gpm. It has a
config file /etc/gpm.conf (on my debian boxen, RH may be different).
It'll need to read something like:
device=/dev/psaux
type=ps2
sorry, I don't know why mouseconfig (don't have it on debian) hangs, but
the idea that comes immeaditely to mind is that something else (Maybe your
ethernet card :-) ) is using interrupt 12, the standard ps2 interrupt.
Is something else listed as generating intterupt 12 in /proc/interrupts?
Other problem might be there's not ps2 support in the kernel. If you've
compiled your own, check your .config (If you don't know what I'm talking
about, don't worry). I'm sure teh default RH kernel has ps2 support..
hope this helps,
greg
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