On 20 Feb 1998, William R. Ward wrote: > I have a motherboard that has a PS/2 mouse port. It's *not* an ATX > motherboard, though - the PS/2 port and the parallel port are together > on a metal insert that goes in one of the card slot holes in the > case. I have a TrackMan that has a PS/2 port: with an adapter it > works fine in the serial port, but I want to free up that port and use > the PS/2 port on the motherboard. > > I tried plugging the mouse in, powering up the system, and configuring > XFree86 to use /dev/psaux or /dev/psmouse, but no dice. I also tried > "cat /dev/psaux" and moving the trackball and pushing buttons, and saw > nothing - I expected to see gibberish. So maybe it isn't working at > all!
Is the kernel (or kernel module) configured to support the ps/2 mouse? Also check in the bios if the PS/2 port is enabled and at the excepted IRQ. -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
