what protocol do i use in "mouseconfig" for my serial mouse?

I have tried many combinations, and sometimes it just locks up the whole machine when doing startx or sometimes if i move the mouse the cursor goes crazy. any help would be sweet

TIA

Did you try the three-finger "cntrl-alt-backspace"?

Hi,
not sure if this helps, but if you have an adapter laying around from serial to ps/2, try making the conversion and see what happens.

zmedico: What does "Did you try the three-finger "cntrl-alt-backspace"?" Do for the mouse? Does it go through a list or mouse protocols? Sorry, not really sure what that is.

abrakadabra: This an ollllld AT Motherboard, I only have a serial port in the back, cant covert my mouse serial > ps2

TIA!

not sure what the answer is, i was using red hat 7.0 at the time i was using a serial mouse, and it auto detected. i can't even remember what config file you need to edit to make the mouse work. It's on these forums somewhere though, i found it a couple of months ago. Try doing a search.

What i really was going to say though is that the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace thing is supposed to kill the X server, letting you back down to runlevel 3, and a prompt. This is what you do if X doesn't work, so you don't need to reboot. With some video cards (SiS 630 ) it doesn't work though...

No, it doesn't help the mouse, but it kills XFree86 for you.

Ok, sweet. Thanks for the tip. This help me with trying to get my mouse to work without rebooting all the time.

Thanks