Re: intellimouse/XF86Setup

[Peter Ross <petdr@cs.mu.oz.au>]

Check to see whether or not you have gpm installed, and if it is
running.

If it is, you should use /dev/gpmdata as the mouse device.

If it isn't you could try installing gpm and let it auto detect your
mouse.

Also make sure that your kernel has PS/2 support compiled into it, by
finding a line like below in /var/log/messages

Apr 10 15:39:10 laptop kernel: Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.

HTH,
Pete

On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 11:37:39PM +0100, Nuno Almeida wrote:
> > I'm a complete idiot in the Linux world, and I feel worst when I get
> myself
> > involved and spending so much time with little things like catching and
> > configuring my Microsoft Intellimouse in the XF86Setup. And quess what!!
> It
> > just doesn't work. It's a normal Intellimouse for PS/2 standard. It
> doesn't
> > work in /dev/psaux, nor in any of the other shown in XF86Setup. When I try
> > to call startx the startup routine aborts because it just "can't connect
> to
> > device".
> > Please help me. I thougt I was a great computer specialist but I guess
> > beeing a good C code maker, doesn't help me at all in this pitfall. I will
> > be absolutely thankfull for any clue that anyone can give me.
> >
> 
> 
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