rodent troubles . . .
 

Dear all,

Fired up my installation of Mandrake 7.2 the other day. Wanted to get NIC card working. Ran kudzu from a console. It didn't find the newly installed NE2000 card (another story), but did mention something about a new PS/2 mouse. I don't have a PS/2 mouse (its a serial one on ttyS0) so blindly agreed to delete the settings. Now the poor little rodent is frozen on the spot (centre of screen).

If I look in /dev, I've got:

mouse -> psaux
mouse1 -> ttyS0

/etc/X11/XF86Config pointer section seems OK [am not in front of machine right now so can't post it . .]

Can anyone give me some pointers (excuse pun) as to how to completely remove the serial mouse settings and start from scratch?

Regards
Mark

Well, psaux is the device name for a ps/2 mouse, so if you delete the symlink from mouse to psaux and create a new one from mouse to ttyS0 it might do the trick...

Can't garuantee it though....

Thanks, did try that, but it didn't seem to help. Also noticed that a reboot reset the symlink mouse -> psaux. If I assume that the devices are set up properly, can I test to see what device is recieving input from the mouse? It was all woking fine a while ago (and the mouse itself is fine . .) ? ? ?