From: farrow@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (J. Scott Farrow) Subject: PS/2 mouse setup for Packard Bell? Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1992 04:02:20 GMT
To those of you following this continuing saga, no, I haven't fixed it
yet. :)
My problem is the following, after patching the kernel (0.98.1) with Dean's
PS/2 mouse patches, recompiling, and rebooting, I get a hung console. No
keyboard input is accepted at all. Several people I have talked to said that
the PS/2 style mouse is run off on aux port on the keyboard controller, so
I removed the mouse and rebooted. Everything works fine now without the mouse.
So my problem is the mouse. I've changed device files, and major and minor
numbers to what should be the proper values, but nothing helps.
My current setup is the following:
Packard Bell Legend 770
33Mhz 486DX, 4Mg ram, 8Mg Linux swap
Phoenix BIOS A486 version 1.01
/dev/hda3 is a 64 Mg Linux/minix partition
Mouse: is a Packard Bell, PS/2 mouse claiming full compatability with
Microsoft Mouse, Mouse Systems Mouse, and the PS/2 mouse.(yeah, right)
/dev/psaux, major 10, minor 1 (as kernel source says it should be)
/dev/mouse -> /dev/psaux
I've tried removing the /dev/psaux and creating a /dev/mouse with those
major/minor numbers, but it doesn't help.
If you or anyone you know has a working PS/2 mouse under Linux on their
Packard Bell PC, please tell me how you have things set up.
Thanks,
Scott