Thank you for your quick respone. I haven't done anything about compile a
kernel.
Would you please show me how to do it. I have Debian linux 2.0.0 on my machine.
Base on your message I think I have MS PS/2 mouse.
Regards,
Thanh X. Ngo
(972) 927-6192
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On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, Jim Pick wrote:
>
> > I am installing X window on my machine using xf86config program.
> > startx tells me that no mouse is found on my machine. I can use the
> > mouse when I run Window for Workgroup.
> >
> > Can anybody tell me why linux can not detect the mouse device on my
> > machine. I have Microsoft two buttons mouse.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your help.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Thanh X. Ngo
> > (972) 927-6192
>
> Just a thought - do you have a bus mouse? If so, is support for
> it compiled into your kernel?
If your mouse has a little round adapter instead of a rectangular one,
then it is a MS PS/2 Mouse. You then need to compile a kernel which
supports it.
Syrus.
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