Mouse voodoo?

[Duane Attaway]

On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Bradley Miller wrote:

> The mouse is on COM3 -- /dev/ttyS2 in Linux on IRQ4 with O3E8-O3EF.  
> What's up with this????  StartX is not allowing mouse to work???  It
> was complaining it didn't know what the mouse protocol was, but once I
> ran the config program, that fixed that.  It's referencing the mouse
> as /dev/mouse . . . link looks like it should work.

There are just two things xfree looks at to catch a mouse: 

First, in /etc/XF86Config, xfree chases down the mouse with this:
  
Section "InputDevice"

# Identifier and driver

    Identifier  "Mouse1"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option "Protocol"    "microsoft"
    Option "Device"      "/dev/mouse"

Second, in your /dev directory, it should catch the mouse:

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            5 Nov 10 14:29 mouse -> ttyS2

But if your mouse still escapes detection, this little great howto has a
thorough, yet concise step by step mousing guide:

http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/3-Button-Mouse-5.html

Its has the latest links for covering unusual and exotic hardware
configurations.  Guaranteed to catch mice or your money back.

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