RE: P/S 2 Mice

[Shaleh <shaleh@livenet.net>]

On 18-Dec-98 Jeff Browning wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> My friend has installed Debian on his computer. He has a P/S 2 mouse. It 
> wont work in X or in the normal shell with GPM. How would you get a P/S 
> 2 mouse working in Linux? Are there any packages we need to install? 
> TIA!
> 

One) you need ps/2 support in the kernel (non serial mice is the option)
Two) the device is /dev/psaux make usre you use that -- I like to ln /dev/???
to /dev/mouse and use /dev/mouse.  That way I can switch mice and not have to
reconfigure things.