Serial Mouse problem
Mike Egglestone
Have you tried installing gpm?
I think its gpm......:)
You can run that to configure your mouse....
Mike
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From: "Chris Everist" <chrise...@one.net.au>
To: <debia...@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 7:05 PM
Subject: Serial Mouse problem
> Hi,
> I have installed Debian twice now and it does not seem to recognise my
> serial mouse. It is a generic 3 button mouse with a Mouse
> Systems/Microsoft switch on the bottom and I have tried both settings.
> I have run xf86config from the promt and used XF86Setup from within
> Gnome and have no luck.
> I have tried all the possible device options I can think of
> (/dev/ttyS0-4, /dev/mouse) but nothing happens.
> I have checked in the /dev/ directory and cannot find a symbolic link to
> the mouse driver /dev/mouse.
> Do you have any idea what coule be causing this problem?
> Regards
> Chris Everist
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W. Paul Mills
There is no need for /dev/mouse to exist. Are you shure you are
connected to a serial port? Another common location is the PS2
mouse port -- usually located next to the microphone connector.
IF on hte PS2 port it would be /dev/psaux.
chrise...@one.net.au (Chris Everist) writes:
> Hi,
> I have installed Debian twice now and it does not seem to recognise my
> serial mouse. It is a generic 3 button mouse with a Mouse
> Systems/Microsoft switch on the bottom and I have tried both settings.
> I have run xf86config from the promt and used XF86Setup from within
> Gnome and have no luck.
> I have tried all the possible device options I can think of
> (/dev/ttyS0-4, /dev/mouse) but nothing happens.
> I have checked in the /dev/ directory and cannot find a symbolic link to
> the mouse driver /dev/mouse.
> Do you have any idea what coule be causing this problem?
> Regards
> Chris Everist
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Joost Kooij
> I have tried all the possible device options I can think of
> (/dev/ttyS0-4, /dev/mouse) but nothing happens.
Those are not "device options", they're symbolic devices managed by
the kernel and that correspond to some physical peripheral.
You should try to find out to what plug your mouse connects. If
it is a small round one, that corresponds to /dev/psaux. If it is
a classic small rs232 style connector, it is a common serial port
that corresponds to /dev/ttyS0 or /dev/ttyS1.
> I have checked in the /dev/ directory and cannot find a symbolic link to
> the mouse driver /dev/mouse.
It is not needed for the system. Just for humans, so they get less
confused. Well, you can see how well that works out already... :-P
> Do you have any idea what coule be causing this problem?
You are not setting the right "wire protocol" for your mouse.
Mice come in different tongues. Some even speak with two tongues,
depending on which port it hangs off of.
Check out the XF86Config or XF86Config-4 manpage and some of the
gpm documentation for more information about mouse protocols.
Cheers,
Joost
Vineet Kumar
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I think it could use some clarification that one has suggested
installing gpm and someone else has stated that "gpm can cause
problems". I hope I can make things clearer without just adding to the
noise...
(Start by reading Joost's message regarding mouse hardware.)
When you say your mouse isn't working, I assume you mean it's not
working under X. Have you tried it on the console? If you have gpm
installed and configured correctly, you should see a mouse cursor when
you move the mouse on the console, and should be able to use your
mouse to copy and paste text there.
I'll try to describe what I've found to be the best mouse
setup, one that works fine on the console and in X.
First, I find it's altogether the least amount of headache if you
ensure that there is no /dev/mouse symlink on your system. Figure out
what port your mouse is plugged into by reading Joost's message and
use that explicitly in your gpm config. You can set this up by using
the gpmconfig program.
Along the way, it will ask for a protocol to use for the repeater.
What this does is it creates a "virtual mouse" by echoing data in the
mouse protocol of your choice into /dev/gpmdata.
You should then configure X to use /dev/gpmdata as its device, and
tell it to use the protocol you chose as the gpm repeat protocol. I
believe gpm defaults to repeat in the "ms3" protocol, which can be
understood by X if you use Option "Protocol" "Microsoft" in your
/etc/X11/XF86Config. Alternatively, you can specify any protocol you
like in your gpm repeater config, as long as you tell X to use the
same protocol. As someone else suggested, you can tell gpm to repeat
as type 'raw' in which case you should configure X to use the actual
protocol that your mouse is speaking. From the sound of things, it
speaks at least 2 different protocols. It's easiest to figure it out
with gpm, and then mirror that in XF86Config.
I realize this isn't an in-depth walkthrough, but I hope it will help
you understand how the two systems can share the mouse and how to
configure them. If you have further questions, please don't hesitate
to ask.
Vineet
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If form console you do cat /dev/mouse and move the mouse what happens? If y=
ou do not get random noise that is not your mouse device. Also in your XF86=
Config file what does it have for the protocol? Also do you have GPM runnin=
g and what branch of Debian are you using?
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 08:35:53AM +1000, Chris Everist wrote:
> Hi,
> I sent this before but my ISP has just gone broke so I did not receive
> any replies. So here goes again.
> I have installed Debian twice now and it does not seem to recognise my
> serial mouse. It is a generic 3 button mouse with a Mouse
> Systems/Microsoft switch on the bottom and I have tried both settings.
> I have run xf86config from the promt and used XF86Setup from within
> Gnome and have no luck.
> I have tried all the possible device options I can think of
> (/dev/ttyS0-4, /dev/mouse) but nothing happens.
> I have checked in the /dev/ directory and cannot find a symbolic link to
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> the mouse driver /dev/mouse.
> Do you have any idea what coule be causing this problem?
> Regards
> Chris Everist
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