Hi jj, You are lucky! we must be the only Debian Linux users with the same mouse and graphic card on this planet :-). From reading your mail it seems you have gone all the way through it... Oooops!!! Wait a minute. Try:
# gpm -t 'bm' -m /dev/inportbm Remember from the busmouse HOWTO: one thing is the protocol (busmouse) and the other the hardware interface or device driver (/dev/inportbm) For me it worked "out of the box". Well, you already know... after recompiling as you did. I have choosen busmouse compiled in, but it should work as a a module too. I prefer to see that the "...mouse is detected" when running dmesg. The only difference between your setup and mine is the interrupt which I have on IRQ=5 (I thought it was the default for this mouse!). But maybe you don't want that because of conflicts... Anyway, this is just to give you some hope: busmouse (inportbm) on IRQ5 + ATI Ultra works fine for somebody else. Just a comment I find useful to minimize the changes when switching mice (serial <-> busmouse). I don't use the real device names (ttySn or inportbm) but a link to them via: # (cd /dev ; ln -sf inportbm mouse) or # (cd /dev ; ln -sf ttyS0 mouse) and start both gmp (look at /etc/init.d/gpm ) and X (look at etc/X11/XF86Config) by pointing to /dev/mouse. Then only change you need to do when switching mice is the protocol: [bm|ms] for gpm and [Busmouse|Microsoft(<-check please)] for X. e.g. for gpm gpm -t bm # -m is /dev/mouse is default. or gpm # ms is the default and mouse is the default too! Check the sintax on the man page. Hope it helps! Lazaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> P.S. Warning to other newcomers and busmice owners: The standard 2.0.6 kernel in the boot.bin 1996-07-14 disks does not include the module for busmice). Under special-kernels/.. many of the 2.0.5 images do support the busmice drivers as modules. The Config with whiche they were created is there too. For me was easier to recompile :-) >_________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ >Subject: Cannot compile mouse support - help! >Author: debian-user@lists.debian.org at cclink >Date: 08.08.96 15:43 > > >Hi all, > > I'm trying to compile mouse support into my kernel (2.0.6), but for the >life of me I can't get the mouse to function. I have a busmouse on an >ATI Graphics Ultra + card (which the HOWTO says is a regular busmouse, >NOT an ATI busmouse). When I run MSD under dos, it reports a busmouse >using IRQ4. So far, so good. > > When I try to use the mouse (gpm -m /dev/inportbm) I just get the >message "/dev/inportbm - No such device". So I tried removing the >inportbm and recreating it (mknod /dev/inportbm c 10 2); running the >"file" command on the new inportbm indicates that it is a character >special (10, 2). Still no luck - no such device. > > > I've tried compiling with busmouse support and NO serial support, >compiling with serial support and NO busmouse support, and compiling >with both busmouse AND serial support. In all cases I get "no such device" >when using /dev/inportbm. On the two kernels with serial support, the >gpm -m /dev/ttys0 command does not fail with an error, but it does not >provide any visible mouse support either. And I have checked that >busmouse.h #defines MOUSE_IRQ = 4. I set both serial and busmouse support >to be in the kernel, not in modules. > > I've read the busmouse-HOWTO and the FAQ and have not been able to >solve this problem. Does anybody have any ideas what I'm doing wrong here? >The mouse works fine under DOS/Windows, so it shouldn't be a hardware problem. > > Thanks all. > >-jj