From: darin@infograph.com (Darin Wayrynen) Subject: Re: X and microsoft bus mouse? Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 22:45:57 GMT
In article <30750@castle.ed.ac.uk> ee3jmb@festival.ed.ac.uk (J Brickwood) writes:
>I am having trouble getting X386 to work with my
>MS bus mouse. I have /dev/mouse symbolically linked
>to /dev/bmousems and the kernel seems to detect
>and install the driver at boot time....However, when
>firing up X I am unable to move anything/press buttons.
>i.e. X starts OK but I have no mouse !
>Xconfig contains the mouse control line,
>
>busmouse "/dev/mouse"
>
>Any ideas ?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Justin.
>ee3jmb@festival.ed.ac.uk
I had the same problem and no amount of softlinking the /dev/*mouse*
files, or fiddling with major/minor device numbers would get it to
work.
Then I remembered someone mention that you had to have the mouse card
set to use IRQ 5. I looked at the card, found that it wasn't set to
IRQ 5, set it to IRQ five, and it worked like a charm...
Bus mice are great. Under ever PC based GUI I have seen, serial mice
pointers do not move smoothly when there is a load on the CPU. Bus
mice tend to almost always move smoothly.
Just my humble opinion...
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