Re: XFree86 on potato

[Taro Fukunaga <tarozax@earthlink.net>]

I ran MAKEDEV generic-powerpc after rpm -e'ing the dev RPM. This created 
the devices I needed to run X and use the mouse, which is /dev/adbmouse. 
/etc/X11/XFree86Config looks like:

Section "Pointer"
  Protocol "BusMouse"
  Device "/dev/adbmouse"
  ...

Taro

Michael Schmitz wrote:

> > > adbmouse. Then I edited /etc/X11/XF86Config so that the mouse device was adbmouse.
> >
> > DO NOT use the dev rpm, aliened or not, IT WILL RUIN YOUR SYSTEM!
> > someone already made that mistake earlier and had to use boot floppies
> > to recover.  its not that hard to use mknod to create the handfull of
> > nodes you need.  
>
> mknod /dev/adbmouse c 10 10 should do it. BTW: adbmouse is deprecated and
> should not be uses together with the new input layer. Use /dev/input/mice
> (c 13 63) instead.
>
> 	Michael
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