Re: moving from RH to Debian - one glitch

["nate" <debian-user@aphroland.org>]

Rodney D. Myers said:
> I'm in the process of moving from RedHat to Debian. Finally.
>
> I got most things working, all but [I think] one or two items.
>
> The first is my mouse. It's attached to port 1, /dev/ttyS1. And "dmesg |
> grep tty" shows;
>
> ttyS01 at 0x02f8
> ttyS03 at 0x02e8
>
> I've tried removing /dev/mouse, and linking to /dev/ttyS1, ttyS01, with
> not luck. I know I'm missing something, but not sure what.

so the mouse is not working? what are you using to test it? I reccomend
gpm for basic testing before going to X. The most compadible protocol
that I have come accross is imps2 so:

(as root)
gpm -t imps2 -m /dev/ttyS1

and see if the mouse works..

if it does and you want X then..

gpm -k

(edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and be sure it's using the right device
and the protocol is IMPS/2)

startx

You can configure gpm and X to use the mouse at the same time but I
don't use this configuration myself, I would reccomend preventing
gpm from starting on boot if your X loads on boot:

update-rc.d -f gpm remove

if your trying to access the mouse as non-root be sure your in
the dialout group (adduser MY_ACCOUNT dialout  then logout and in again)

nate