serial mouse not working

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: serial mouse not working
started by: jls legalize

Posted by jls legalize on April 17 2004,13:56

I tryied
ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/mouse
and also
mouseconfig
but the mouse is not working, while booting win98 works fine

Posted by christosvas on April 20 2004,09:26

Logout X using Alt-Ctrl-Backspace, run "mc" and edit file /etx/X11/XF86Config and in the section
Section "Pointer"
Device "/dev/psaux"
Protocol "ImPS/2"
Emulate3Buttons
ZAxisMapping 4 5
EndSection

Change "psaux" with "ttyS0" and "ImPS/2" with "Microsoft"
save exit mc and run startx. You should be ok now.

Posted by jls legalize on April 20 2004,21:46

I did:
hd install
ctrl+alt+backspace
su
vi /etc/X11/XF86Config
changed what u told me even tryed ttyS1
exit
startx
but still not working:angry:

Posted by cbagger01 on April 21 2004,00:41

Try /dev/ttyS1
/dev/ttyS2
or
/dev/ttyS3

There have been some reports that "COM1" in windows does not always translate in to serial port 0 in DSL.

Good Luck.

Posted by hasty on April 21 2004,15:29

Would just add that on one machine I had to rm /dev/mouse before ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/mouse
The link by itself wasn't enough. HTH

Posted by jls legalize on April 22 2004,08:35

I tryed also ttyS2 and ttyS3 but nothig, I read somewhere in this forum that maybe there is a bug in the kernel. Maybe I have to change something in the bios of my pc (serial port config) ?