Serial Mouse in Redhat 6.2

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$su -
password: <secret>
# mouseconfig

Reconfigure your mouse to serial mouse.

"Tim C. Cox" wrote:

> I had my PS/2 mouse port get flaky on me so I got one of those adapters to
> plug the PS/2 mouse into a DB9 serial port. Trouble is I can't figure out
> what I need to do to configure the mouse. When I boot I get a message that
> the PS/2 mouse has been removed but it doesn't detect the serial connect and
> allow me to configure the device as a MS Intellimouse Serial. Any clues?
>
> TIA
> Tim cru...@usa.com

[Tim C. Cox]

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> "Tim C. Cox" wrote:

>> I had my PS/2 mouse port get flaky on me so I got one of those adapters to
>> plug the PS/2 mouse into a DB9 serial port.

ERROR:

Those adapters are for PS/2+Serial mouses (mice?) which have the
electronics for both ports. They don't work in converting a PS/2 mouse to
a serial port UNLESS it is a PS/2+Serial mouse (but it probably won't
destroy the mouse - however, I have destroyed two serial only mouses
(mice?) by trying to use a converter going the other way, to PS/2, without
checking if the mouses (mice?) supported PS/2 ports).

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in article 9Bqi5.2898$R87....@typhoon2.ba-dsg.net, Tim C. Cox at
cru...@usa.com wrote on 4/8/00 11:17 AM:

> I had my PS/2 mouse port get flaky on me so I got one of those adapters to

> plug the PS/2 mouse into a DB9 serial port. Trouble is I can't figure out
> what I need to do to configure the mouse. When I boot I get a message that
> the PS/2 mouse has been removed but it doesn't detect the serial connect and
> allow me to configure the device as a MS Intellimouse Serial. Any clues?
>
> TIA
> Tim cru...@usa.com
>
>

Its likely that will not work unless you have an old ps/2 mouse as I hear
the electronics in newer mice wont work with an adapter on a serial port.
Easier to go and buy a new serial mouse.... cheers 8)