mouse problems on i486Forum: User Feedback Topic: mouse problems on i486 started by: superNewbie Posted by superNewbie on May 09 2004,21:29
HelloI've been trying DSL on a Pentium 4, Pentium 3 and Pentium 2. It just works great on them. Now I've been playing around to get DSL running on a pentium 133 Mhz with 48MB(though DSL recognizes it as an i486), and I don't seem to get the serial mouse working. A week ago I installed FreeBSD on this old pentium and my mouse worked fine on COM2 (/dev/ttyS1). DSL also tells me it's finding a serial mouse on ttyS1, but after X started up, it just doesn't work. I can see the pointer, but I can't move it. I've tried Ctrl+Alt+Del to remove and relink /dev/mouse to /dev/ttyS0, /dev/ttyS1, /dev/ttyS2 as suggested in the search results on "mouse" on this forum. Still it doesn't work :-( Does anyone has an idea or workaround for this problem? Thx in advance! Posted by cbagger01 on May 09 2004,22:37
Try editing your .xserverrc file in your home directory.Replace the link to the mouse with /dev/ttyS1 Also, try /dev/ttyS0 in case the ports are swapped. Good Luck. Posted by hasty on May 10 2004,17:42
Another suggestion.On one box I found the ln-s /dev/ttys0 /dev/mouse wouldn't work until I had done rm /dev/mouse as root then type the ln -s line. HTH |