"Bruno Buys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just installed a brand new etch on a athlon2400. Mouse is serial and xorg > won´t > load complaining 'no core pointer'. > I tried both imps2 and explore-something (the only 2 options), but no good. > I also tried to locate my mouse, doing: > cat /dev/input/mice (which is the suggested location, by dpkg-reconfigure > xserver-xorg) > cat /dev/ttyS0 (worked to me several times in the past) > cat /dev/ttyS1 > cat /dev/ttyS2 > cat /dev/ttyS3 > > None of them seem to have a mouse. ttyS0 when catted, throws a bunch of random > unreadable chars in the screen without me even touching the mouse. When > ctrl-c´ed, the prompt is left screwed. The other tty´s don´t cat anything at > all. > > > any ideas? > thanks!
Look at lsmod output for 8250_pnp. If it there then the serial interface was initialized. And show your xorg.conf, please. What the mouse you use?
