On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 10:47:21AM -0300, Bruno Buys wrote: > Just installed a brand new etch on a athlon2400. Mouse is serial and xorg won´t > load complaining 'no core pointer'. > I tried both imps2 and explore-something (the only 2 options), but no good. > I also tried to locate my mouse, doing: > cat /dev/input/mice (which is the suggested location, by dpkg-reconfigure > xserver-xorg) > cat /dev/ttyS0 (worked to me several times in the past) > cat /dev/ttyS1 > cat /dev/ttyS2 > cat /dev/ttyS3 > > None of them seem to have a mouse. ttyS0 when catted, throws a bunch of random > unreadable chars in the screen without me even touching the mouse. When ctrl- > c´ed, the prompt is left screwed. The other tty´s don´t cat anything at all. > > > any ideas? > thanks! Maybe you need to load the kernel modules in /etc/modules as the kernel and udev can not 'detect' a serial mouse being plugged in, at least that is my understanding. 'sermouse' and 'mousedev' come to mind. cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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