Re: Titanium trackpad blues

["natural.resonance" <resonance@inteliport.com>]

Thanks!  That worked perfectly.  You're a great help at this, you know.  I
used your website quite a bit when installing debian.  What do you do for a
living?

on 4/3/01 23.31, Ethan Benson at erbenson@alaska.net wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 10:58:59PM -0700, natural.resonance wrote:
>> Here's the deal - after finally installing debian on my titanium powerbook
>> g4, the trackpad isn't working.  here's the entry from the XF86Config :
>> 
>> 
>> Section "Pointer"
>> 
>> Protocol  "BusMouse"
> 
> should be IMPS/2
> 
>> Device  "/dev/mouse"
>> 
>> 
>> /dev/mouse points to /deb/adb.  Now here's some messages from my boot up
>> sequence.  (I'm using kernel 2.2.18) :
> 
> /dev/adb is not a mouse or keyboard.

I thought adb was related to macintosh input devices.  If not, what is it?

> 
> point /dev/mouse at /dev/input/mice and create those devices if
> necessary (see attached script)
> 
> ===cut here===
> #! /bin/sh -e
> 
> if [ `id -u` != 0 ] ; then
> echo 1>&2 "You are not root, go away"
> exit 1
> fi
> 
> cd /dev
> mkdir -m 755 input
> cd input
> mknod -m 640 mice c 13 63
> mknod -m 640 event0 c 13 64
> mknod -m 640 event1 c 13 65
> mknod -m 640 event2 c 13 66
> mknod -m 640 event3 c 13 67
> mknod -m 644 js0 c 13 0
> mknod -m 644 js1 c 13 1
> mknod -m 644 js2 c 13 2
> mknod -m 644 js3 c 13 3
> mknod -m 640 mouse0 c 13 32
> mknod -m 640 mouse1 c 13 33
> mknod -m 640 mouse2 c 13 34
> mknod -m 640 mouse3 c 13 35
> cd /dev
> rm -f mouse
> ln -s input/mice mouse
> rm -f adbmouse usbmouse
> 
> echo "input devices created successfully"
> exit 0
> ===cut here===