On 20 Feb 1998, William R. Ward wrote: : I have a motherboard that has a PS/2 mouse port. It's *not* an ATX : motherboard, though - the PS/2 port and the parallel port are together : on a metal insert that goes in one of the card slot holes in the : case. I have a TrackMan that has a PS/2 port: with an adapter it : works fine in the serial port, but I want to free up that port and use : the PS/2 port on the motherboard. : : I tried plugging the mouse in, powering up the system, and configuring : XFree86 to use /dev/psaux or /dev/psmouse, but no dice. I also tried : "cat /dev/psaux" and moving the trackball and pushing buttons, and saw : nothing - I expected to see gibberish. So maybe it isn't working at : all! : : I'd appreciate any suggestions for 1) testing to see if my PS/2 port : even works, 2) configuring Linux to find my PS/2 port, and/or 3) : getting it to work with X. : : --Bill.
You probably did this already, but have you enabled your PS/2 mouse port in your BIOS? You also need a kernel with PS/2 support compiled in, or you need to insert the module. I believe typing 'cat /proc/misc' will show you if ps2 support is currently enabled. Also, check /proc/interrupts to see if IRQ 12 is free. HTH, -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 phone: (605) 334-4454 fax: (605) 335-1173 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net PGP Key ID: 0xA33B86E9 - Public key available at keyservers PGP Key fingerprint: CE03 10AF 3281 1858 9D32 C2AB 936D C472 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
