hey guys,
I have been trying to get this to work for the last month or so but i have just not been able to get rid of this problem.I have tried various version of the 2.6 series and everytime i get the same error.
I have a normal serial port mouse attached onto my mobo.
presently i am running kernel 2.4.24 and the mouse section of XF86Config file is:
Code:
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
#Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Name" "Autodetection"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
This works just fine.
however i got an error message saying that /dev/psaux does not exist when i use the same config file so i did some research and saw that people were using /dev/input/mice as their device so i put in that.
Code:
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
#Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Name" "Autodetection"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
however this did not work and i got the following error message:
Code:
(**) Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
(**) Mouse1: Protocol: "IMPS/2"
(**) Option "CorePointer"
(**) Mouse1: Core Pointer
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice
No such device.
(EE) Mouse1: cannot open input device
(EE) PreInit failed for input device "Mouse1"
(II) UnloadModule: "mouse"
(II) Keyboard "Keyboard1" handled by legacy driver
(WW) No core pointer registered
(II) Server_Terminate keybinding not found
No core pointer
Fatal server error:
failed to initialize core devices
i also get another error with the new kernel:
Code:
Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such device)
i have no idea what this second error means so if anyone does please do help me.
I have also checked to make sure the /dev/input/mice does exist and it has the following permissions:
Code:
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 63 Mar 14 2002 mice
/dev/psaux also has the same permissions:
Code:
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 10, 1 Mar 21 13:23 psaux
Now i do not know what i am doing wrong or what is going wrong here.
I am using apt to download the kernel image so i dont think there could be much wrong with the config of the kernel.
could someone please help me with this.I really want to use 2.6.4 but just cant seem to get past this problem.
if it helps i have XFree 4.3.0-7 installed.
plzzzzz help me.
thanks