Re: missing amigamouse device (?)
Hello Michel Am 05-Nov-02 schrieb Michel Dänzer: > On Son, 2002-11-03 at 00:39, Andreas Wüst wrote: >> >> I couldn't find any mouse device for a normal Amiga mouse connected to >> the mouseport. I luckily had some advice from earlier days to create it as >> follows: >> >> # cd /dev/input > > Do you really mean this or just /dev? Ok, caught him. The "problem" is non-debian specific, so no need to send followups to debian-boot (to be precise, it is neither apus specific, it is specific to this strange guy who started this thread..). When helping Björn Johansson, I sent him my XFConfig, which contained this /dev/input/amigamouse thingy. He wrote back that this wouldn't work, so I advised him how to create the amigamouse device. But then I wondered why it isn't automatically included in the debian base installation. Well, it is, but not in /dev/input but in /dev. So how did I think it should be in /dev/input? I don't know!! I just don't know. I just sent him my config where it refers to /dev/input (which I neither know why this is like that), and he realised that this device doesn't exist. So please forget my post (lucky me i placed a question mark at the end of the subject, so I am not totally disgraced now..)! >> # mknod amigamouse c 10 4 > > Or either of > > MAKEDEV misc > MAKEDEV m68k-mice fine. Or just forget it.. PS: It would still be nice to have it mentioned during X configuration (as well as that Amiga users have to choose the BusMouse protocol).. -- Best wishes, Andi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: missing amigamouse device (?)
On Son, 2002-11-03 at 00:39, Andreas Wüst wrote: > > I couldn't find any mouse device for a normal Amiga mouse connected to > the mouseport. I luckily had some advice from earlier days to create it as > follows: > > # cd /dev/input Do you really mean this or just /dev? > # mknod amigamouse c 10 4 Or either of MAKEDEV misc MAKEDEV m68k-mice -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
missing amigamouse device (?)
Hi In the light of an upcoming 3.0r1 release I wanted to bring up an issue which stroke me a bit during installation. I couldn't find any mouse device for a normal Amiga mouse connected to the mouseport. I luckily had some advice from earlier days to create it as follows: # cd /dev/input # mknod amigamouse c 10 4 I guess it would be a bit annoying for a newbie to not find any information about amiga mice nor having any working device for it anyway, which means you don't have any mouse support at all. May it be a good idea to add this device to a base installation, or does it just duplicate another already existing device (but of which noone knows that it has to be chosen as an Amiga mouse device)? OTOH, it is not that useful to have a device but nobody knowing of it. So it should maybe also be mentioned during X or gpm configuration, but this seems to be another story.. [ sent to debian-boot and linux-apus-devel ] -- Best wishes, Andi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
