Slackware8.1, KDE & serial mouse
 

I’m running Slackware8.1 and I have 2 problems.

1. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=44425

2. When I start KDE3.0 the mouse is only visible as long as I don’t touch it. As soon as i move it goes invisible. (At least I think its still there)
I’m using a serial Microsoft 2 button mouse. And it works great with gpm. I also tried: "killall -9 gpm" in case it messed things up. But it didn’t have any effect. I’m not totally sure what configs I have to edit, and what to write in them since I’m not sure if this is a mouse or a video problem (everything else looks nice when KDE is started). Please help me.

Heve you tried the mouse with any other window manager (GNOME, for example)? If the effect is the same, you should configure your X again (using xf86conf) and choose the right mouse.

I get the error running gnome too. I have used xf86conf and I did choose the right mouse. I have changed the XF86Config too.
I tried changing the protocol to "Microsoft". Then i changed the device to "/dev/gpmdata" and then "/dev/mouse"

After running the xf86conf again the mouse-pointer is visible all the time but now I can’t move the mouse. So this must be some kind of mouse problem and not a video one (?).

Still... I can’t figure out what to put in XF86Config.

If you're using XFree version 4+, you need to edit XFree86Config-4.
You should find something like this:

Ok I have solved it:

I changed the device to "dev/ttyS0"

And it works great!

If you want to, you can create a symlink to /dev/ttyS0.

ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/mouse

It's up to you though. :)