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Re: Mouse



On Fri, May 08, 1998 at 06:51:02PM -0600, Chris Betz wrote:
> My mouse is currently a "Microsoft Serial Mouse with Wheel", at least
> according to windows. I have it plugged into the Com1 port on my
> computer. I'm a newbie, and I can't seem to get xwindows to recognise my
> mouse even if I go through all the options for Microsoft Mouse ports. It
> just doesn't respond. Any suggestions?

You have a symlink /dev/mouse pointing at /dev/ttyS0?  If not make one. 
Become root and type:  ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/mouse

That'd be my first guess, that you're trying to use /dev/mouse and it's not
there or that you're using ttyS1, COM1==ttyS0.

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