Re: Thinkpad 701CS (fwd)

["David S. Jackson" <dsj@dsj.net>]

Thanks to all who responded to my problem! 

Thanks, Oliver.  You solved my problem!  :-)


On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote:

>   >conflict that might screw up my modem.  Do you think running gpm (or
>   >trying to run) on the same device as my modem could cause some of the
>   >problems like I'm having? 
> 
> I can't imagine what that would do!  It might be a good idea to reset the
> modem to its factory defaults by using its switches -- just in case this
> has messed up its settings.

I went ahead and did a reboot.  Seemed to do the trick.

> If you have a PS/2 mouse, it's device is /dev/psmouse, for which ls -l should
> report:
> 
>   $ ls -l /dev/psmouse
>   crw-rw-rw-   1 root     sys       10,   1 Apr 27 17:59 /dev/psmouse
>   $ 

Yup, it did.

> You should delete /dev/mouse and run
> 
> 	ln -s /dev/psmouse /dev/mouse
> 
> to get that link correct.

I went with ln -sf /dev/psmouse /dev/mouse in one swell foop.  Thanks for
telling me about /dev/psmouse.  I never used it before!!  Great tip!  :-)

> On the other hand, your last mail implies that gpm is working; if so,
> it can't be a PS/2 mouse -- or is gpm using /dev/psmouse and bypassing
> /dev/mouse altogether?

I had to kill GPM before using the modem.  since /dev/mouse was linked to
/dev/ttyS0 my script sensed the modem device was busy.  And it left the
modem in an unusual state too.  

I linked /dev/mouse to /dev/psmouse and that left the ttyS0 open for the
modem. Also, gpm got ahold of the correct pointing device.  Now everything
is peachy!  :-)

Thanks very much Oliver!!


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