RE: Can anyone help me?
Yo-
> Just for more fun and confusion I have a little more info. First of all I
> should tell you that I am a cadet at the United States Air Force Academy and
> consequently I was issued (I bought it, but it was deducted from my pay and
> given to me like every other one of my classmates) my computer. I tried to
> do as you said with the gpm, however, it said that there was no such device
> as /dev/psaux. Also, on the back of my computer (all my documentation is
> photocopied by the company that mass produced these machines for us and does
> not include everything I'd like) the port that my mouse is plugged into is
> labeled COM1 not that that necessarily means anything.
It appears that you have a *serial* mouse. Therefore run 'gpmconfig' and
set the device name to /dev/ttyS0 (thats a capital S and a zero).
To configure X run 'xf86config' and choose number 1. The wheel on your
mouse has no purpose/use in Linux as it was added for use only in MS
Office and IE 4.0. When asked for your device type in /dev/ttyS0 and then
just follow thw rest of the instructions.
If this doesn't work make sure gpm is running by typing: ps aux | grep gpm
Hope that helps.
-Ian
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