Re: Cannot run X - missing /dev/mouse

2003-01-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
Try changing Option "Protocol" "auto" to Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 07:29:54PM -0500, Andrew Pierce wrote: > I am still not getting a mouse in X. I tried this: > > cat /dev/mouse > > moved the mouse around, and got garbage characters on the screen. This > means

Re: Cannot run X - missing /dev/mouse

2003-01-17 Thread Andrew Pierce
I am still not getting a mouse in X. I tried this: cat /dev/mouse moved the mouse around, and got garbage characters on the screen. This means the mouse driver is loaded and working doesn't it? Why won't it work in X? In /var/log/XFree86.0.log, I am still getting the message: "Cannot determine

Re: Cannot run X - missing /dev/mouse

2003-01-16 Thread Ken McCord
Type in 'ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse'. That'll create a symlink called /dev/mouse that will point to /dev/psaux (Your PS/2 mouse). Ken Andrew Pierce wrote: I am having trouble running X. I just installed Woody r1 and I do not have a /dev/mouse which is what X is looking for. I do not underst

Cannot run X - missing /dev/mouse

2003-01-16 Thread Andrew Pierce
I am having trouble running X. I just installed Woody r1 and I do not have a /dev/mouse which is what X is looking for. I do not understand why /dev/mouse is missing and how I should go about creating it. BTW, I have a Microsoft Wheel Mouse, P2/2 interface. Thanks in advance. -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Missing /dev/mouse

2001-11-25 Thread Andrew Sione Taumoefolau
On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 11:44:18PM -0600, MysteryMeat wrote: > I've got it just plugged in a normal, plain PS/2 plug. I don't think it > needs any special device doohickey, but it's an optical mouse that has a > USB-to-PS/2 plug. Any idea where I could find the device to symlink to? # ln -s /dev/p

Re: Missing /dev/mouse

2001-11-25 Thread Joe M Mar
I think with a PS/2 you have to select '/dev/psaux' not '/dev/mouse' At 11:44 PM 11/24/01 -0600, MysteryMeat wrote: > > I have done installs from the net (using only the minimal set of floppies > to get started) in the past, and never had a problem of this type. > > /dev/mouse is usually a symli

Re: Missing /dev/mouse

2001-11-25 Thread Martin Kacerovsky
> I've got it just plugged in a normal, plain PS/2 plug. I don't think it > needs any special device doohickey, but it's an optical mouse that has a > USB-to-PS/2 plug. Any idea where I could find the device to symlink to? The device is /dev/psaux, but in XF86Config(-4) file you must also specify p

Re: Missing /dev/mouse

2001-11-24 Thread MysteryMeat
> > I have done installs from the net (using only the minimal set of floppies > to get started) in the past, and never had a problem of this type. > > /dev/mouse is usually a symlink to whatever device the mouse is really > on. You can either create it yourself, or change your X configuration to >

Re: Missing /dev/mouse

2001-11-24 Thread Craig Dickson
Nick wrote: > I'm really new to Debian and so far I think it's great, excpet for one > thing I had trouble getting X to work, but I grabbed the SVGA > server and it worked, but then the mouse didn't work. After some > investigation, I found that /dev/mouse was completely missing! I did a > fro

Missing /dev/mouse

2001-11-24 Thread Nick
    I'm really new to Debian and so far I think it's great, excpet for one thing I had trouble getting X to work, but I grabbed the SVGA server and it worked, but then the mouse didn't work. After some investigation, I found that /dev/mouse was completely missing! I did a from-internet i