Serial Mouse problem

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Serial Mouse problem
started by: ian76

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Posted by ian76 on Oct. 21 2004,19:20

I'm trying to use DSL on my old 486. I don't have a PS/2 port, so I have to use a serial mouse.

I don't have an actual serial mouse, so I am using a PS/2 --> serial adapter.

DSL doesn't seem to recognize the mouse. I've tried running 'mouseconfig' and tried all the COM ports, but none of them seem to work.

Any suggestions?

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Posted by Rapidweather on Oct. 21 2004,23:54

Does it boot up to a graphical interface? (but no mouse)
Also, what version of DSL are you using? I do have one machine that
can boot DSL 0.6.2, and has a serial mouse. The mouse works, but I cannot
move the menu around, or grab any window by the titlebar and move it around. Also, I cannot move the scroll bar up or down in Opera.
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Posted by skaos on Oct. 22 2004,10:57

You can check if the mouse is working with microcom, first kill X with crtl-alt-backspace and then run:
microcom -D/dev/ttyS0
If moving the mouse doesn't produce anything, try /dev/ttyS1. If that doesn't work, then either your mouse, adapter or serial port doesn't work.

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Posted by ian76 on Oct. 28 2004,18:43

Yes. X would start, but I couldn't use the mouse.

The mouse I was trying to use has a scroll wheel. I switched to a 3 button mouse and everything is fine now.

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