On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 at 17:34 -0700, Kenneth Burgener wrote: > The file /dev/input/mice does exist. > > debian:/dev/input# ll > total 0 > crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 64 2004-09-18 05:52 event0 > crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 65 2004-09-18 05:52 event1 > crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 66 2004-09-18 05:52 event2 > crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 67 2004-09-18 05:52 event3 > crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 0 2004-09-18 05:52 js0 > crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 1 2004-09-18 05:52 js1 > crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 2 2004-09-18 05:52 js2 > crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 3 2004-09-18 05:52 js3 > crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 63 2004-09-18 05:52 mice > crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 32 2004-09-18 05:52 mouse0 > crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 33 2004-09-18 05:52 mouse1 > crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 34 2004-09-18 05:52 mouse2 > crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 35 2004-09-18 05:52 mouse3 > > So what might be causing this issue?
Unless you're running devfs or udev, this doesn't mean that /dev/input/mice actually exists as a device. /dev/input/mice is a HID thing, so you might check that. If your mouse _isn't_ a usb HID device, try pointing it to /dev/psaux -- .O. Hans Fugal | De gustibus non disputandum est. ..O http://hans.fugal.net | Debian, vim, mutt, ruby, text, gpg OOO | WindowMaker, gaim, UTF-8, RISC, JS Bach --------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460
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