Re: A mouse Q..
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 01:05:40PM -0400, Wayne wrote:
> Hi,
> To install Debian , for the first time, I used
> the CD from the book "Debian GNU/Linux Bible"
> When I assign my mouse protocol PS/2 and selected
> the /dev/psaux with Emulate3Button my systems
> hangs. I have to reboot. If I use Microsoft and
> /dev/ttyS01 it works. When I boot my system,
That suggests that the mouse is connected to the serial port, not the
ps2 port. Sure enough it shouldn't work with /dev/psaux then.
Or did you mean to say that you tried it both with a ps2 mouse
and with a different serial mouse?
But to hang your whole machine? Perhaps it is just Xwindows that
freezes (maybe only for a minute or so).
There were some ps2 keyboard problems with kernels below 2.2.19
IIRC, so it would be worth a try to install a newer kernel than
the one that came with the installer (2.2.17?)
> I see that my port PS/2 is recognize. Does anyone
You probably mean that the kernel prints a message at boot time,
indicated that it found the ps2 port controller chip in your
system and that it activated a driver for it. Maybe there
is a bug in the kernel, maybe it is in your cabling. Impossible
to tell from your data.
Cheers,
Joost
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