Mouse under X

[Shekar]

I have a packard bell 486 with a Packard Bell (two button) mouse. I used
the defalut configuration for the X windows. The windows come up fine,
but the mouse doesn't move.
Can anyone help me out with this by posting to this newsgroup, or
sending a personal e-mail to she...@hotmail.com?
Thanks in advance for the reply.
-shekar

[Rich Garrett [110]]

If you have a serial mouse, linux assumes your mouse is on com1,
irq4 by default. Your mouse device, /dev/mouse, should be symbolically
linked to /dev/cua0. The other possiblity is that your mouse was really
on com2, irq3 (like mine was !). In this case, remove the
current /dev/mouse and type the command "ln -s /dev/mouse /dev/cua1".
This will setup the mouse device to com2, irq3. Another possibility is
irq conflicts. Hope this helps.

-Rich

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[Geoff Short]

Shekar (she...@hotmail.com) wrote:
: I have a packard bell 486 with a Packard Bell (two button) mouse. I used
: the defalut configuration for the X windows. The windows come up fine,
: but the mouse doesn't move.

If it's a serial mouse, on COM1 in dos, then you need to do:
ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/mouse
If it's a ps/2 mouse, then:
ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse

The config file should be edited to to Microsoft on /dev/mouse, which is
probably the default.

Any more problems, see the Serial Mouse mini-HOWTO, or the Busmouse
HOWTO, at your local mirror of sunsite.unc.edu.

Geoff
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[Theral Mackey]

In article <3280B6...@hotmail.com>, Shekar <she...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>I have a packard bell 486 with a Packard Bell

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'nuf said

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