Re: Sparc Potato mouse and keyboard setup
G'day Renato,
You need to link /dev/mouse to /dev/sunmouse
PS. Its a bus mouse not ps2.
Check the back of your keyboard for the type eg. mine is a US type 5, run
kbdconfig as root, choose /sun for the keyboard definition, and choose
sunkeymap for the layout if you have a US keymap.
Otherwise you will need to find out what keymap you've been using with
slink.
Don't use gdm.
Chow,
Peter Firmstone.
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Renato Braga de Lima Guedes wrote:
> Guys,
>
> I had used Debian Slink on my Sun Ultra 10 free of problems, but now
> I am trying to install the Debian Potato (2.2 r 2) and i'm having a lot
> of trouble to configure my mouse and my keyboard to X enviroment.
> The keyboard works OK out of the X enviroment, but whem the X is
> turned on the keyboard seems to change some characters. For example, the
> character "c" appear when the ENTER key is pressed. I saw, during the
> instalation process, that a kind of X-Windows filter program is
> instaled and a keyboard options screen appear. In fact, I am not sure
> about wich keyboard select from that list. Since my keyboard is common
> Sun one (QWERTY with nothing special) I have tried the Suns Keyboad
> standart options, with no success.
> The mouse problem is more challenger because there are few options
> during the instalation process and I already have tryed all of them. Due
> to a instalation bug, a had to make the simbolic link from /dev/mouse to
> /dev/ttyS0 (I tryed to do it to /dev/ttyS1 too) that it's necessary to
> start the X Windows enviroment, and it was OK, no problems. But when the
> X Windows is turned on (the graphical screen appears OK) the mouse
> pointer does not move. I don't know what to do. This damn mouse worked
> OK with Slink for almost two years and this problem is becaming very
> boring. My mouse is a Sun mouse, with 3 butons, and it's connected to
> keyboard trougthout a rounded conector. The keyboard is connected to
> computer trougthout a rounded connector too. I suspect that it is a PS/2
> mouse (due to round conector) but I already have selected this options
> and things didn't became better. I readed in the Debian.org home page
> that there are some bug reports about PS/2 mouses but I couldn't find a
> solution to this problem.
> I would really apreciate if anyone could help me. Thanks.
> Best regards,
>
> Renato Guedes
>
>
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