Re: Strange x11 problem

[Michael Pacey <mpacey@wd21.co.uk>]

You need to make a symbolic link from the real mouse device to the
/dev/mouse file.

If you've got a ps/2 mouse then the real mouse device is /dev/psaux.

If you've got a serial mouse then the real mouse device is /dev/ttySx
where x is the number of the serial port, 0 for COM1 through 3 for COM4.

e.g: ps/2 mouse
(as root): ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse

e.g. mouse on COM1:
(as root): ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/mouse

> I'm a relative newbie to debian, and happened upon this problem.  I
> configured X11 through xf86config and then ran startx.  The problem is that
> when I run it it says "no directory 'mouse'" (something along those
> lines)...  Looking in /dev I see that I have no /dev/mouse.  What should I
> do?
> 
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