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Re: Xwindow and mouse



Thank you for your quick respone. I haven't done anything about compile a kernel.
Would you please show me how to do it. I have Debian linux 2.0.0 on my machine.
Base on your message I think I have MS PS/2 mouse.

Regards,
Thanh X. Ngo
(972) 927-6192

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From: Syrus Nemat-Nasser <syrus@physics.ucsd.edu>, on 3/21/97 11:42 AM:
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From:    Syrus Nemat-Nasser  syrus@physics.ucsd.edu

Subject: Re: Xwindow and mouse

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On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, Jim Pick wrote:

>
> > I am installing X window on my machine using xf86config program.
> > startx tells me that no mouse is found on my machine. I can use the
> > mouse when I run Window for Workgroup.
> >
> > Can anybody tell me why linux can not detect the mouse device on my
> > machine. I have Microsoft two buttons mouse.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your help.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Thanh X. Ngo
> > (972) 927-6192
>
> Just a thought - do you have a bus mouse?  If so, is support for
> it compiled into your kernel?

If your mouse has a little round adapter instead of a rectangular one,
then it is a MS PS/2 Mouse.  You then need to compile a kernel which
supports it.

Syrus.

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