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Old 04-13-2004, 07:52 AM   #1
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weird old mouse!


Hey, im using some old mouse which doesn't work on slackware. Here is the info from Windows:

Name: Microsoft seriel mouse
Producer: Microsoft
Placed: COM2

I changed to the old mouse because my mouse at that moment broke and the XF86config is configured for the now broken PS/2 mouse and i dont know how to edit the XF86config to accept the the new old mouse. Anybody know what i can do?

Please i cant stand windows any longer!

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Old 04-13-2004, 08:51 AM   #2
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Aaarh, c'mon please!
 
Old 04-13-2004, 10:25 AM   #3
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Are you using gpm? Is it a three button mouse?
If you could post the "pointer" section of your XF86Config that would help.
 
Old 04-13-2004, 11:27 AM   #4
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You may want to try /usr/sbin/mouseconfig before editing your x configuration file.
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Otherwise, assuming that you are using xfree86 4.2 or higher, the section of the XF86Config file you are looking for looks something like this:


Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse 1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "Protocol" "Auto"
EndSection

Before you do any alterations to this file make sure that you back it up...

The protocol and the device sections are the most important parts to look at. You may be able to use this snip-it that I got from xfree86's website. The device section has to point to the location of your mouse (maybe /dev/ttyS1 for COM2? though you should probably use a link like /dev/mouse as in the example). You can probably use the protocol "Auto" otherwise try "intellimouse". Auto will automagically pick the protocol for you I would use this unless your mouse still doesn't work then try intellimouse.

Good Luck!!
 
Old 04-13-2004, 01:03 PM   #5
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LoL i found another mouse which works fine. but thanks for the help, now im sure that should have used ttyS1. thanks alot for the help(seriosly)
 
  


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