Re: Where's my mouse

[Stephen Smoogen <smooge redhat com>]

On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Tim Lindquist wrote:

> I'm having some trouble getting my mouse working with XFree86 off the
> 4.2
> Redhat distribution.
> 
> Inintially, I installed the Metro-X server. However, I have an S3Virge
> card,
> and Metro-X doesn't provide a dedicated server for this yet, so I only
> had VGA resolution (But my mouse on Com2 worked!!).
> So I decided to install XFree86. Used XConfigurator, everything
> seemed to go OK. But when I startx, the display comes up fine but Mouse
> won't move.
> 
> I looked at the xf86config file. Mouse is set to Microsoft which is
> correct,
> and port is /dev/mouse (which I find is linked to cua1).
> 
> So what am I doing wrong????
> Is it a problem in the 3.2.9 S3V server, or just the mouse
> configuration?????

I would use the program mouse-test to see that things are really on the
ports listed (but that seems to be correct from what you say above.) I
would then try one of the following:

move /dev/mouse to /dev/ttys0

rm /dev/mouse
ln -s /dev/ttys0 /dev/mouse


or try gpm -k

Some getting it working with one type and others with gpm -k..

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