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I have an oldish computer with a 400Mhz Processor, 64 Ram, and an old serial mouse and 5 pin keyboard. I tried installing Linux on it but it cant find the mouse. The mouse is a standard serial mouse on COM1, I select that but it refuses to find it and it wont start the X Server !! Please help if you can
Thanks peeps for your replys, but what i forgot to tell you was that i was just about going to install it and when i press enter to install it finds unkown monitor, graphics card and picks the mouse up as "No mouse" but when i configure it on COM1 generic 3 button mouse and press ok it still fails to start X, Any Ideas please. Thanks
Sorry. I tried starting installation of RH9 on my old system with a serial mouse. Unfortunately (?) my mouse (Microsoft Intellimouse) was identified as a Generic 2 Button Serial mouse.
The only thing I can imagine is that your mouse is very non-standard or that your serial ports are swapped or disabled in BIOS. (Are you familiar with BIOS settings?)
If you don't have another mouse, could you try installing in text mode? That way, we can try to solve your mouse problems after install.
Good luck and good night. (It's soon midnight in Sweden)
Martin
I'm having the same prolem, but with Slack 9.1 in a faster pc.
The com ports are working, since I have Win98 running on other partition.
My mouse is a wheel mouse(vertical scroll), serial conection.
XF86config protocol: I dont't know. In fact, all the protocols I tried have
failed.
After a lot of battle (loosed)
I tried desperately make at least GPM work on shell.
So I've started with pkgtool, to confgure GPM.
After a few (A lot!) attempt, I did the worst thing thatI could: choose imps/2 protocol.
Now when I boot my system the GPM load in wrong way and locks out my keyboard, so now I can't even log on or reboot!!!!
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