Getting mouse to work under Linux?
Hi there ya'll.
I've just installed a fresh copy of Slack9.0 and I tryed to start KDE (startx) but this tells me that it can't open the mouse device. Now is this mouse not on a port like you see with the new computers (mine is 486) but on some sort of COM port (I recone). Can anyone tell me how I might get this rodent to do its work :p Thnx in advance |
presumably it will be on /dev/ttyS0 or S1, so the pure way would be to open up /etc/X11/XF86Config and change the mouse device to point to the correct location.
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Yeah, most likely its on COM1 if its a serial mouse most likely.
You should be able to make a link to /dev/mouse from /dev/ttys0 which would be the COM1 port. Try running xf86config and specify during the setup that your using a Generic Serial Mouse, as it should detect and work with that sort of configuration. |
Thnx :)
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WHAHAHAHAHAAH! Beautiful, probabley got it to work :cool:
But........ can't test it cause my card can't handle the X server (VESA compatible) :D Thnx anyway. |
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