Re: Mouse Device

[servis@purdue.edu]

*- Christopher Jay Stevenson wrote about "Mouse Device"
| 
| I'm buzy installing X Windows
| (I have xsave and the Xserver for general SVGA)
| and I don't know where my douse is in /dev.
| 
| (I told the kernel to include support a PS/2 mouse, and I have a 
| Microsoft Intellimouse on a PS/2 port.)
| 
| Oh... /dev/mouse doesn't exist.
| 

/dev/psaux is the device for a ps/2 pointing device.  /dev/mouse is
never a real device file it is just a symbolic link to whatever your
pointer device is.  i.e 'ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse'.  Lots of apps
use /dev/mouse by default(not X though) and assume the sysadmin has set
up the appropiate link.

-- 
Brian 
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