Re: Please but more bugs in Debian Linux ;-)

[Syrus Nemat-Nasser <syrus@ucsd.edu>]

Thanks for the kind words.

On 3 Jul 1997, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
[snip]
> A question I have anyway: The 386 or 486 has a Microsoft Serial Port
> Compatible mouse. I couldnt try a working driver module for that one.
> Microsoft Bus mouse did not work, PS/2 mouse did not work... I tried
> every mouse driver that has been in the list... any ideas?

One idea.  A serial mouse does not require any of the modules you name 
above.  You just need "generic serial support", I believe.  Your mouse is 
probably on /dev/ttyS0.  If you install gpm for the console mode, or if 
you configure X, just select the options for a MS serial mouse.  A 
standard Debian kernel like the one on the rescue disk will support a 
serial mouse.  Note that /dev/ttyS0 is the proper name for COM1 and 
/dev/ttyS1 is COM2.  Most vendors/people who build PC's put the serial 
mouse on COM1 which is /dev/ttyS0.  Once you know where the mouse is, you 
can always create a symbolic link to /dev/mouse.

Hope this helps.

Syrus.

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Syrus Nemat-Nasser <syrus@ucsd.edu>    UCSD Physics Dept.



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