Can you post the output of "ls -l /dev/psaux" please, and for the same
for "ls -l /dev/mouse", this might help. And can you post the
XF86Config-4 input device section that you currently have on the duron.
If its Protocol does not already say "IMPS/2" change it to that and
see if that works...
And i suggest that you probably want /dev/psaux as the device, not
/dev/mouse, unless /dev/mouse is a link to /dev/psaux (which is why i
ask for the output of the ls -l commands....
Here's what mine looks like:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "off"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Thats for a MS Optical Wheel Mouse... which is exactly the same so far
as XFree86 is concerned.
Hope this helps.
Steve
On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 03:56:09PM +1200, Bill Evans wrote:
> I'm a newbie trying to get Redhat 7.3 up and running.
> The computer is a 15 month old TasTech Duron 800 with a Genius Netscroll mouse.
> MS Windows recognises it as PS/2 compatible and names the port as mouse port.
> The monitor is a Viewsonic E651
> The graphics card a 32MB GeForce2 MX AGP
>
> I cannot get the GUI running.
> Within the CLI the mouse does not function in Midnight Commander.
> Following startx, the error messages seem to indicate that the problem with the
>mouse is also the cause of the GUI failure.
> (I tried a couple of serial mouse drivers and these allowed the GUI to open but the
>mouse pointer was frozen.)
>
> Copied from the XFree86log the error messages for all drivers are:
>
> (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/mouse
> Device or resource busy.
> (EE) Mouse0: cannot open input device
> (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Mouse0"
> ...
> Fatal server error:
> failed to initialize core devices
>
> I have tried various settings within XF86Config-4 including those recommended on the
>Genius website.
> There it suggested
> Section: "Pointer"
> Protocol: "IMPS/2"
> Device: "/dev/psaux"
> SampleRate: 60
> BaudRate: 1200
> ZAxisMapping: 4 5
> Buttons: 3
>
> My XF86Config-4 doesn't use this exact format, but I am sure I got it all set out
>properly.
>
> I have an identical mouse running on another computer (Pentium 166) with Redhat 7.0
> It works ok within mc.
> (There once again I have problems with the GUI but that's another story.)
>
> The settings there are:
> Section "Input Device"
> Identifier "Mouse0"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
> Option "Protocol" "Microsoft"
> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
>
> I have tried this setting on the Duron without success.
>
> During installation at the point Xwindows is checked, everything seemed ok. I think
>I actually clicked on that button where it asks you to click it if you see it
>(although I might just have hit Enter.)
>
> I would be grateful for suggestions as to a trouble shooting sequence I should
>follow at this stage.
>
> Bill
>
>
>
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