Is it a serial mouse ? 

If so, why are you playing with the psaux port ?

For serial mouse, you want:

   X_MOUSE_DEVICE = /dev/ttyS0    (or S1 if it's the 2nd serial port)


And, in your item 1 below, all of your settings are commented out.


Jim McQuillan
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On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> dear all,
> 
> back on the grind after a week. so this in continuation of the suspended
> in mid-air thread of a serial mouse on a workstation that does not work.
> (surprisingly, the archives do not show the last week's archives onwards).
> according to the tips i received last week, have done the following steps:
> 
> 1) have put the following in my ltsp.conf
> [ws001]
> RUNLEVEL =3
> #X_MOUSE_PROTOCOL="Auto"
> #X_MOUSE_DEVICE = "/dev/psaux"
> #X_MOUSE_DEVICE ="/dev/input/mice"
> 
> 2) booted ws001
> 
> 3) checked that 'ls -l /dev/psaux' linked to /dev/misc/psaux'. it did.
> 
> 4) checked that 'ls -l /dev/misc/psaux' was a character device with major
> 10, minor 1 ('crw-r----- 1 0 0 10, 1 psaux'). however, must add that in
> this line, it showed the date at something set to 1970, which i suppose
> wouldn't really effect the mouse's functioning.
> 
> 5) was asked to look at /tmp/XF86Config, in particular at the part that
> starts :
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier"Mouse0"
> 
> Noted that *no such section existed* in the XF86Config.
> 
> however, what i did find was the following section:
> Section "Pointer"
> Protocol "Auto"
> Device "/dev/psaux"
> Resolution 400
> Buttons 3
> BaudRate 1200
> AlwaysCore
> ZAxisMapping 4 5
> 
> 
> 6) then i ran /tmp/start_ws
> i received the following message:
> xf86SetupMouse: Cannot determine the mouse protocol.
> 
> 7) in ltsp.conf, i then commented out X_MOUSE_DEVICE = "/dev/psaux" line,
> and uncommented the line X_MOUSE_DEVICE = "/dev/input/mice". then i
> rebooted ws001.
> 
> 8) re-ran thru the steps 3), 4), 5), which gave identical reports, except
> in step 5) where naturally, the X_MOUSE_DEVICE ="dev/input/mice".
> 
> 9) ran /tmp/start_ws. this time i got the following message
> Fatal Server Error:
> Cannot open mouse. (No such file or directory).
> 
> 
> two urgent words to the ltsp community:
> "Please Help!"
> 
> thanks
> 
> :-)
> LL
> 
> 
> 
> 
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