Re: gpm troubles on potato? (kbd-related?)

[Pollywog <pollywog@shadypond.com>]

On 14-Jun-99 Ernest Johanson wrote:
> I had some problems similar to this on a recent potato install. On this 
> machine, the Logitech PS/2 mouse connects to a separate mouse port instead
> of a standard serial port. Both kernels 2.0.36 and 2.29 had the same
> issue. Turned out that /dev/mouse pointed to /dev/ttyS0 when it needed to
> point to /dev/psaux. Resetting the /dev/mouse symlink and setting the
> protocol in /etc/gpm.conf to ps2 fixed it.

I had this exact problem, with the erroneous link too, but I had already
removed gpm when I found the bad link.  Is gpm something I should have?  If
just changing the link would fix the problem, I could reinstall it.


thanks

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Andrew