On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 03:49:09PM -0700, Mark Simos wrote: > > got debian 2.2 on a powermac 9600/200 with standard ADB mouse and keyboard. > > keyboard works great, mouse does not. can fool x into loading by pointing the mouse at /dev/adb, but of course the mouse doesn't work. I don't have a /dev/adbmouse > > do i need to recreate that? how? if using 2.2.18pre21 or later: change the mouse device to /dev/input/mice. if that does not exist run this script as root: ===cut=== #! /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=== if you are using less then 2.2.19 run: apt-get update && apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.19-pmac. make sure security.debian.org is in /etc/apt/sources.list. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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