Gus Wirth wrote:
Rich Ernst wrote:
I've been trying a bunch of live as well as a full install of Fedora
Core 5, and apparently there's no default serial mouse configuration!
What's up with that? Ubuntu, CentOSLive, even Knoppix doesn't find
the serial mouse on this box. Got FC5 to work by manually finding,
downloading and installing system-config-mouse and running it. That
apparently set it for X as well.
Anyone have any idea why this isn't still in default configs?
(Strange box, only one ps/2 port.)
Oh, Knoppix v3.3 found the mouse fine, but 3.9 didn't. Weird. How do
I configure a mouse without a mouse in X, for example... :)
Just because the box only has one PS/2 port doesn't mean it can't take a
PS/2 mouse. Have you tried one of those laptop splitter cables to
separate the keyboard and mouse connections? The design of the PS/2
connector is such that the keyboard and mouse share the same connections
because the data lines are open collector and are ORed together without
cause electrical damage. The keyboard/mouse controller chip (nowadays
usually part of the southbridge chipset) figures out which is which from
the synchronous data stream.
Gus
Right you are, and although I know there are/were some at work, as well
as at my house, I've not been able to turn one up to try out. I found
out that although there are no usb ports on the box itself, the mbd has
usb, I just need to find the correct interface to connect it and I could
use a USB mouse.
Meanwhile, I've got a perfectly good 3 buttom mouse not working out of
the box, which seemed very odd, since it always "used to" work that way,
or give you an option to choose it.
Rich
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