On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Karthik Vishwanath wrote about, mouse problem:
> Hi,
>
> 6.1 does not seem to recognise my mouse correctly. I have a generic
> two-button PS/2 mouse. 'mouseconfig' hangs on running. The mouse
> cursor is not visible in the text mode and does not move in X. There is
> no mouse interrupt listed in /proc/interrupts. The device works fine in
> windows. What could the problem be? What must I try?
A PS/2 mouse uses IRQ12 and there for has its own device in /dev.
Its called psaux.
Firstly make sure GPM is killed.
cd /dev
rm mouse
ln -s psaux mouse
gpm -m /dev/mouse -t ps2
In Redhat i belive you need to do the following.
Edit /etc/sysconfig/mouse to reflect the changes for your next boot.
> Thanks,
>
> -Karthik.
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