From: jem@snakemail.hut.fi (Johan Myreen) Subject: Re: Mouse on HP 486/33T? Date: 16 Nov 1992 19:54:30 GMT
In article <1992Nov14.014950.1627@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com> grant@hpmcaa (Grant Garner) writes:
>Has anyone gotten the "Mini-DIN" mouse on an HP Vectra 486/33T to work?
>The slight info I've been able to find says it's PS/2 compatible, but
>I sure can't seem to get it going.
First you need to create an entry in /dev for it:
mknod /dev/psaux c 10 1
There is no direct PS/2 mouse support in XFree86 yet, so to use the
mouse with X you'll have to use the mconv mouse protocol conversion
utility, which can be found on nic.funet.fi, in
/pub/OS/Linux/utils/tools/mconv.c. This program converts the packets
sent by the PS/2 mouse into the corresponding ones from a Microsoft
mouse, so you can fool X telling it you have a Microsoft serial
mouse instead. Instructions for use are included in the source file.
I've been putting pressure (very slight so far :-) on the XFree86
development team to get direct PS/2 mouse support into X. Let's hope
it makes it into the next release, so we won't need the mconv hack
anymore.