Re: Mouse Problems in X Theory Part II

[pepersb cuug ab ca (Brad Pepers)]

> I have selected PS/2 for the mouse protocol, and the actual error I'm
> getting just before starting X is that the Resource may be busy or not
> there.....

This error usually means that the interrupt for the PS/2 mouse is in
use by something else.  Type "cat /proc/interrupts" to see what is
being used.  I think IRQ 12 is what the PS/2 mouse wants.

On the laptop I have (IBM Thinkpad 755CD) the PCMCIA drivers end up
using IRQ 12 and I got the same error you are.  Once I reconfigured
the PCMCIA not to use IRQ 12, everything worked fine!

> Is there a way for me to configure my mouse in Redhat without recompiling my
> kernel? I selected PS/2 when I installed Redhat so I'm assuming my kernel's
> already compiled for it's use........

The Red Hat kernel should have the PS/2 mouse support in it so you don't
need to recompile the kernel.  You just need to figure out why the X
server can't allocate it to use.

> Thanx for your time.
> Chris.

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