Re: mouse

[servis@purdue.edu]

*- Rick Knebel wrote about "Re: mouse"
| On Thu, Aug 27, 1998 at 07:24:18PM -0500, servis@purdue.edu wrote:
| > *- Rick Knebel wrote about "mouse"
| > | Hi,
| > | I have been playing around with debian 1.3.1 in anticipation of getting 2.0
| > | in a couple of days.
| > | I have set up X on my computer many times without diffuculties.
| > | When I try to start X It  keeps crashing with the message cannot find mouse.
| > | My mouse is on ttyS0 and is a microsoft compatible two button serial mouse.
| > | At least that is how I set it up in redhat and caldera.
| > | Any suggestions.
| > 
| > Can you show us the Pointer section of your XF86Config and the exact
| > error messages from X
| Protocol "Microsoft"
| Device "/dev/ttyS0"
| 
| Error  Cannot open mouse (No such file or directory)
| 

Hmmm, does the kernel detect the serial ports at boot, is serial
support compiled in or in a module?  What does dmesg say?  I get the
following for my serial port(0) and modem(3) at boot(serial support
compiled in).

Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled
tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
tty03 at 0x02e8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A

Does gpm work?

-- 
Brian 
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