On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 03:31:41AM -0700, John Starkey wrote:
> My mouse was detected by Kudzu and "supposedly" configured. But it won't
> do anything in X.
>
> I tried:
>
> setserial -g /dev/psaux
>
> and rec'd the following error:
>
> Cannot get serial info: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>
> man ioctl
>
> is pretty confusing still......
>
> Anyone know what's going on here????
>
> And does anyone know how to get out of Gnome when you have no mouse???
>
> I'm running RH6.1, Microsoft compat. ps/2 and serial using a serial
> adaptor.
Whoa. This might be the source of some confusion here. As I read this
it looks like what you have is:
PS/2 mouse -> adaptor -> DB9 serial port
Is that right? If so there are two possibilities:
1) Treat this mouse as any other serial mouse.
2) Remove the adaptor and plug it into the PS/2 port.
The reason the second option is there is this: I've encountered a few
PS/2 mice that just would *not* work through one of those adaptors.
But for the moment we'll suppose that this one will work. In that case,
first check and see where /dev/mouse is linked to. It should be linked
to /dev/ttySx where x indicates which serial port it is. If the serial
port that it's plugged into would be COM1 under DOS, then it'll be
/dev/ttyS0 under Linux. Basically, take the DOS COM port number and
subtract one to get the Linux /dev/ttySx x value. It looked like
you were trying to access either /dev/mouse (which could well be linked
to the wrong device) or /dev/psaux (which is the wrong device). If
/dev/mouse isn't linked to /dev/ttySx then it needs to be changed.
'ls -l /dev/mouse' will tell you this. If it needs to be changed:
rm /dev/mouse
ln -s /dev/ttySx /dev/mouse
done as root will accomplish the change. And hopefully that'll get
things working as they should be, as well.
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