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Re: serial mouse not working



Alexander Poslavsky writes:
> > Is it possible to be a motherboard problem? Mine is a SiS (I forgot the
> > model), with all those PCI, PnP, onboard adapters (sigh).  But I guess
> > this bears no problem with respect to serial ports.  BTW, I've got a
> > (real) modem running without problems under /dev/ttyS1.
> 
> Nah, it's probably not the board, I've got one myself and they're crummy
> but work. And since it is both a problem in X and with gpm, it might be
> you don't have a link between /dev/modem and /dev/ttyS0. Both X and gpm
> use /dev/modem out of the box. 

> root:~$ ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/mouse

No, /dev/mouse is already a symlink to /dev/ttyS0.  I've already deleted
/dev/mouse and created it again.

bye 
    Rafael Caetano <rcaetano@linux.ime.usp.br>


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