serial touchpad

mbvo · 03-13-2009, 07:13 PM

I give up, I've run pkgtool and went through the config for x. after that didnt help i tried commenting and uncommenting differant lines in the mouse section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf. What do I have to do to use a serial mouse on linux?

if it helps i'm using a cirque gpb160 touchpad. and it's on com1(the only rs232 port)

TB0ne · 03-13-2009, 09:33 PM

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Originally Posted by mbvo

I give up, I've run pkgtool and went through the config for x. after that didnt help i tried commenting and uncommenting differant lines in the mouse section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf. What do I have to do to use a serial mouse on linux?

if it helps i'm using a cirque gpb160 touchpad. and it's on com1(the only rs232 port)

Are you referring to it as com1 in your X config? If so, there's your problem...COMxx devices are Windows devices...they don't exist in Linux. Try /dev/ttyS0, etc.

mbvo · 03-13-2009, 10:02 PM

ik that and yes i tried uncommenting the line for ttys0 no luck

michaelk · 03-14-2009, 08:57 AM

Some quick googling indicated the touchpad should be compatible with the basic serial mouse driver. gpm is a console driver but it works with x too.

http://linuxgazette.net/issue36/bennetjan.html
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/...Mouse.html#s10