Re: Serial Mouse in Fedora
On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 06:49 -0800, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: How can I get Fedora to use a mouse connected to a serial port (ttyS0)? All the advice I can Google references things that have disappeared from Fedora over the years. The computers I am trying to get Fedora running on do not have accessible USB ports and only one ps/2 connector. Can't you get little breakout connectors that let you connect a mouse and keyboard to one PS/2 port? I'm sure I've seen those somewhere. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
Re: Serial Mouse in Fedora
2011/3/5 Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R: How can I get Fedora to use a mouse connected to a serial port (ttyS0)? All the advice I can Google references things that have disappeared from Fedora over the years. Try https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SerialMouseHowto PS: rather an issue for fedora-list though .. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
Re: Serial Mouse in Fedora
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 08:28:29 -0800, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 06:49 -0800, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: How can I get Fedora to use a mouse connected to a serial port (ttyS0)? All the advice I can Google references things that have disappeared from Fedora over the years. The computers I am trying to get Fedora running on do not have accessible USB ports and only one ps/2 connector. Can't you get little breakout connectors that let you connect a mouse and keyboard to one PS/2 port? I'm sure I've seen those somewhere. I'd be surprised by that. Typically the PS/2 ports are specific to either a mouse or keyboard and switching them doesn't work. If you are thinking of KVM switches, those have two PS/2 connectors and a VGA connector for each computer you want to connect to. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
Re: Serial Mouse in Fedora
On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 08:28 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 06:49 -0800, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: The computers I am trying to get Fedora running on do not have accessible USB ports and only one ps/2 connector. Can't you get little breakout connectors that let you connect a mouse and keyboard to one PS/2 port? I'm sure I've seen those somewhere. Should work Chuck: http://www.amazon.com/PS2-adapter-keyboard-mou-PS2-ADAPTER/dp/B003Z31N8W --Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
Re: Serial Mouse in Fedora
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 06:49:29AM -0800, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: How can I get Fedora to use a mouse connected to a serial port (ttyS0)? All the advice I can Google references things that have disappeared from Fedora over the years. See 'man xorg.conf' and a description of an InputDevice section. In practical terms drop into /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ a file named, say, 01-mouse.conf with something like this in it Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol mman Option Device /dev/ttyS0 Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 # Option Emulate3Buttons no EndSection adjusting protocol, device and options as required. Many years passed from the last time I even seen a serial mouse but in principle that should work. Hopefully. If you want/need a mouse on a text console then gpm is using a configuration in /etc/sysconfig/mouse. 'gpm -m device -t help' should give you a list of various candidate protocols (or maybe your mouse came with some sort of documentation?). Michal -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
