From: carvalho@tribiet.uucp (Joe Carvalho) Subject: Re: ATI BUS MOUSE WON'T WORK Date: Sun, 2 May 1993 16:31:13 GMT
Mike Yacht (yacht@cybernet.cse.fau.edu) wrote:
: Well, seems I have a similar problem to Mr. Dalton, who posted earlier.
: I have narrowed down my problem to the fact that I my mouse is an ATI XL
: mouse, and I can't figure out what to set in the Xconfig, that won't give
: me the error:
: Cannot open mouse: Invalid argument.
: If I change it to a serial mouse in syssetup, and in Xconfig, it loads X,
: but I can't use my mouse.
: Am I missing a /dev file for tha ATI XL Bus mouse? If so, where can I
: get it. And what do I need to add to my Xconfig?
Hi Mike. The entries in my /dev are as follows...
1 crw-r--r-- 1 root root 10, 3 Nov 23 19:13 /dev/bmouseatixl
2 crw-r--r-- 1 root root 10, 0 Aug 29 1992 /dev/bmouselogitec
3 crw-r--r-- 1 root root 10, 2 Nov 23 19:12 /dev/bmousems
4 crw-r--r-- 2 root root 10, 1 Nov 23 19:12 /dev/bmouseps2
The ATI XL uses a major of 10 and a minor of 3. The command for building a
character /device is as follows. mknod 'path' 'c' 'major' 'minor' or
# mknod /dev/bmouseatixl c 10 3
this will build a character device similiar to line 1.
Then a line in your Xconfig should be something like
Logitech /dev/bmouseatixl
Hope this is what you wanted.
--joe