Search Members Help

» Welcome Guest
[ Log In :: Register ]

Mini-ITX Boards Sale, Fanless BareBones Mini-ITX, Bootable 1G DSL USBs, 533MHz Fanless PC <-- SALE $200 each!
Get The Official Damn Small Linux Book. DSL Market , Great VPS hosting provided by Tektonic
Pages: (2) </ 1 [2] >/

[ Track this topic :: Email this topic :: Print this topic ]

 reply to topic new topic new poll
Topic: serial port mouse< Next Oldest | Next Newest >
cbagger01 Offline





Group: Members
Posts: 4264
Joined: Oct. 2003
Posted: Dec. 08 2005,18:53 QUOTE
How about

ls -l /dev/mouse
Back to top
Profile PM 
netcrawl Offline





Group: Members
Posts: 6
Joined: Dec. 2005
Posted: Dec. 08 2005,19:15 QUOTE
HMMM yes...

In 0.4.10, ls -l /dev/mouse
/dev/mouse -> /dev/ttyS1

In 1.5, ls -l /dev/mouse is
/dev/mouse: No such file or directory
Back to top
Profile PM 
netcrawl Offline





Group: Members
Posts: 6
Joined: Dec. 2005
Posted: Dec. 08 2005,19:49 QUOTE
Thanks cbagger01, you set me in the right direction.

I created /dev/mouse, made ln -s /dev/ ttyS1 /dev/mouse, ran xsetup.sh and set it to COM2, and the serial mouse works just fine.

Thanks again for all responses,
regards, netcrawl.
Back to top
Profile PM 
cbagger01 Offline





Group: Members
Posts: 4264
Joined: Oct. 2003
Posted: Dec. 09 2005,14:10 QUOTE
FYI,

Linux device ttyS1 is usually "COM2" in MSWindows terminology.

You should be able to boot with

dsl xsetup

and then choose this for your mouse port.
Back to top
Profile PM 
netcrawl Offline





Group: Members
Posts: 6
Joined: Dec. 2005
Posted: Dec. 09 2005,16:05 QUOTE
I had in fact used dsl xsetup several times, and tried all the COM ports (ttyS0 to ttyS3) and the serial mouse would not function.

Once I ran 'ls -l /dev/mouse' on both DSL versions, the difference was obvious so I manually created the /dev/mouse file and the sym-link to ttyS1 which of course is COM2.
Back to top
Profile PM 
9 replies since Dec. 08 2005,15:43 < Next Oldest | Next Newest >

[ Track this topic :: Email this topic :: Print this topic ]

Pages: (2) </ 1 [2] >/ 		reply to topic new topic new poll
Quick Reply: serial port mouse

Do you wish to enable your signature for this post?
Do you wish to enable emoticons for this post?
Track this topic
View All Emoticons
View iB Code