Re: Easy Guide Updates
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 10:15:57AM +0200, Ivan Vilata Balaguer wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 04:39:19PM +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I've made the changes suggested herein, and having got a friend
> > to do a HURD install using the Easy Guide, made some other
> > alterations. We'll try X in a few days ;)
> >
> > The link to http://f77.nop.or.jp/doc/XFree86-3.3.3.1.html#theTable (in
> > neil's guide, the X seciont) seems not to work, though; where do I
> > find out about PS/2 mice?
>
> Eeerr, this might be a little Off-topic... Following the
> instructions given in various places to get a serial mouse
> working (associating /hurd/mouse -d com0 -p microsoft to
> /dev/mouse and using the protocol 'osmouse' in /etc/X11/XF86Config)
> in XFree86 3.3.6 (installed from CD images F2) makes the mouse
> work. Well, not really: mouse movement is absolutely jerky, i.e.
> it keeps jumping from one side to the other, it doesn't move to
> the right... I cat'ed /dev/mouse and noticed that data is not
> read smoothly, I need to move the mouse a little to get data.
> The mouse works perfectly with Linux, as a M$ mouse. Maybe
> there's something lacking in the docs?
>
> [...]
>
Ivan
Had much the same problem myself. After a process of guesswork,
I set the mouse to use logitech protocol - it stopped jumping around
my screen. I don't *think* I have a logitech mouse, but this did
work for me. YMMV.
Please report to the list if this does work for you.
Bob
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