the mouse i've been trying work with is one of those realli old ones with a port that's like parrallel printer port except shorter (excuse my poor english, i have no idea what that kind of port is called). anyways when i set up my slackware 10 i chose imps2 as the mouse protocol by accident (i was thinking i was working with my new box =(. now when i do my xorgconfig no matter what i try the mouse just wont work. also, everytime i boot up i see a msg something like mouse device .... -imps2. so i thought this might be the problem. is there some way to change that mouse protocol at boot up without reinstalling the whole slack? i dun wanna wait 2 hours everytime i try a different mouse protocol.

ok the exact line is:
Starting gpm: /usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/mouse -t imps2

That's a serial mouse...

Edit /etc/rc.d/rc.gpm and /etc/X11/xorg.conf accordingly.



Cheers,
Tink

The protocol for a serial mouse is "bare", in case you don't know what to put in.

thx tinkster and wmd, yeah i have no idea what to put for protocol

i replaced all occurances of imps2 in /etc/rc.d/rc.gpm with bare. as for xorg.conf when i tried bare, it says unknown protocol, and when i tried auto, the pointer just wont move =(. i know the mouse is working i tried it on my other box. should i try auto for the rc.gpm as well?

I search trough X docs and it said for serial mouse to use Auto protocol, the only required thing besides that was that /dev/mouse pointed to the correct serial port.

OK, i just reinstalled the whole thing and chose the right settings from the beginning. Everything works the way they should until i upgraded my kernel to the 2.6.7 generic one from slackware's 2nd cd.(i did the same the first time =( no wonder it wasnt working no matter what protocol i chose). So i made two boot options one is 2.6.7 the other is 2.4.26. I havent customized anything yet, so everything should be in their default setting. But the question is how does different kernel affect the mouse? i did the same upgrade on my other box and nothing went wrong =(

Serial mice use the Microsoft protocol and are usually connected to /dev/ttyS0 (COM1) or /dev/ttyS1 (COM2).

yeah i chose microsoft serial mouse with 3 buttons when slack setup asked for it, and dev/tty00(i recall?) anyways i'm pretty sure i chose com1. then for xorgconfig i chose microsoft with chordmiddle. everything works fine with kernel 2.4.26 that comes with slack's default install. it's just not working with the 2.6.7 kernel that comes in the second disc. any suggestions?

Wait for 2.6.20?