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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 > Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration > See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. > http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net > ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net