On Fri, May 08, 1998 at 06:51:02PM -0600, Chris Betz wrote: > My mouse is currently a "Microsoft Serial Mouse with Wheel", at least > according to windows. I have it plugged into the Com1 port on my > computer. I'm a newbie, and I can't seem to get xwindows to recognise my > mouse even if I go through all the options for Microsoft Mouse ports. It > just doesn't respond. Any suggestions?
You have a symlink /dev/mouse pointing at /dev/ttyS0? If not make one. Become root and type: ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/mouse That'd be my first guess, that you're trying to use /dev/mouse and it's not there or that you're using ttyS1, COM1==ttyS0.
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