RE: /dev/psaux (X now working with /dev/ttyS0)
> >>>>Drogo Bumbleroot wrote:
> >>>>>>>I know I've got a PS2 mouse, but X-Windows is telling me
> >>it's not there...
> >>Drogo Bumbleroot wrote:
> >>>I've gotten X-Windows to come up if I use /dev/input/mice (saw it
> >>>somewhere on a webpage), but it still tells me the mouse is
> >>>in use if I use /dev/psaux
> >>>
> >>>Section "InputDevice"
> >>> Identifier "Configured Mouse"
> >>> Driver "mouse"
> >>> Option "CorePointer"
> >>> Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
> >>># Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> >>> Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> >>> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
> >>> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> >>>EndSection
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Kent West [mailto:westk@acu.edu]
> >>Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 8:21 AM
> >>To: 'debian-usedebian-useDebian User'
> >>Subject: Re: /dev/psaux
> >>
> >>>Erm, do you have an USB mouse?
> >>If so, the "/dev/psaux" device is the wrong device to use, and
> >>"/dev/input/mice" is the correct device.
> >>
> >>--
> >>Kent
> Drogo Bumbleroot wrote:
> >I was sure that I replied to this earlier today... Perhaps
> I sent only
> >to Kent and not the list.
> >
> >Mouse is a PS2 mouse. X came up, but I could not move the pointer.
> >
> >I found a 9-pin. X works with it.
> >
> >I swear that I did have the PS2 mouse and X working together
> >previously. The machine was woody at the time.
> >
> >I'd really like to get the PS2 mouse working. I've got 2
> computers w/
> >1 KVM switch. Only right now I need 2 mice...
> From: Kent West [mailto:westk@acu.edu]
> You've got two mice hooked up to the machine?
Bumbleroot does not mean bumbling idiot, thank you.
Unfortutely one mouse per machine since the linux box does not want to
cooperate with the PS2 mouse.
I can still share the keyboard and monitor using the KVM switch.
Thanks for hanging in there on this even.
--
Ed
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