Hi all ... I have a "hopefully quite small" problem with linux ... (RH 5.2) I used to have a serial mouse so my /dev/mouse link was pointing to /dev/cua1 (my serial port). I decided to switch mice and got a ps/2 mouse. i tried to manually change /dev/mouse to point to /dev/psaux but this time i got my parameters reversed, so .... i ended up making psaux a link to mouse which was a link to psaux (duhhh!!!) so then i tried using the mknod command to see if i could do something to fix it. i created psaux again but i'm not sure i did it right, since now every time i start X the mouse moves so fast and the buttons dont work, to the point that the mouse drives me nuts.... when i quit x, the console gives an error saying "gpm: /dev/mouse couldn't find fd for mouse (ioctl error)" or something very close (actaully i'm not sure if gpm shows in the message, but i think it does since it is the mouse handler (correct???)). i had to switch back to my serial mouse and it works after setting mouse to cua1 again just by making mouse point to cua1, but i kind of want to use my ps/2 mouse. anybody know how i can create psaux without having to reinstall linux? i used mknod -c <minor> <major> /dev/psaux which creates a device which is to be character oriented. is a ps/2 device character oriented, or buffer oriented? or FIFO? after doing man mknod i got these ideas but i want to make sure i'm doing things right... also, every time i start linux it tells me that my subnet mask does not match routing table (eth0 reports this error). the ip for my linux box is 172.16.0.1 and netmask 255.255.255.0 (what is the netmask for?? filtering messages coming to my computer??? is that the mask to keep th 172.16.0 part of my ip address? what could be the problem for this error message???) BTW, i changed my domain name to .galaxy.net instead of just .com!!! thanx for the advice... and help at your convenience.... Benjamin S. Vera-Tudela Computer Sciences Dept., UT Austin http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/mrbenji --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
