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kleptomanhs
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 Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 7:55 am Post subject: Xorg and old mouse |
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Hi,
I have an old pc (pentium 166) with a very old mouse. I installed gentoo (2005.0), xorg (6.8.2-r2) and ran xorgconfig. Everything works fine except for the mouse. In xorg.conf i had this: Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0", but gdm (display manager) wouldn't start (and xorg log reported error in mouse configuration). So i switched to /dev/psaux, and gdm started, but i couldn't move the mouse. For protocol i used both: Option "Protocol" "PS/2" and Option "Protocol" "Microsoft". Mouse still can't move. Any ideas about any other devices in /dev i could use or settings for xorg.conf?
I am not sure i configured the kernel (2.6.12-r6) correctly too. From the .config i used, i can see these -->
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# CONFIG_PARPORT_SERIAL is not set
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CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_PSAUX=y
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CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE=y
CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2=y
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# CONFIG_MOUSE_SERIAL is not set
Any ideas? (if its a problem with the kernel what do i do? recompile?)
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ohm314
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| Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 8:05 am Post subject: |
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hi
Try setting your mouse device in xorg.conf like this:
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Option "Protocol" "Auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
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if you are installing gentoo 2005.0 then you are using probably udev, the device node changed for the mouse...
hope it helped...
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kleptomanhs
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| Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 8:37 am Post subject: |
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| ohm314 wrote: | | Code: |
Option "Protocol" "Auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
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thanks, just tried that, doesn't work...
To be more exact my mouse port looks like that: http://www.phm.lu/documentation/connectors/DB9COM.gif
so i guess it is connected on a COM (Serial) port (check this out: Keyboard and Mouse ports). And as i wrote above (check out my kernel options), my kernel was compiled with this option: 'CONFIG_MOUSE_SERIAL is not set'. Any ideas? Anyone knows what's going on?
(note: while i was installing gentoo (livecd) /dev/psaux was automatically selected for the mouse)
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kleptomanhs
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| Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 9:19 am Post subject: |
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From the The complete Gentoo Linux 2.6 migration guide:
| Quote: | | Note: If you are using a serial mouse, the new device path will be /dev/tts/0 instead of /dev/ttyS0. |
That did the trick!
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