On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 08:48:41AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Has anybody got any idea why I can get a serial mouse to work, in X, but not a > PS/2 mouse? > > I am using /dev/ttyS0 for the serial mouse, but when I use /dev/mouse for the > PS/2 mouse it doesn't work. > > Am I overly stupid? what am I doing wrong? >
/dev/mouse is usually symlink to your real mouse device (for example /dev/ttyS0 :) PS/2 mouse is /dev/psaux. So, at first you need # ln -sf psaux /dev/mouse And your kernel must support PS/2 mice. I hope precompiled kernel have it but I don't sure (I always compile kernel myself) -- Ilya
