From: newbury@tecsun1.tec.army.mil (George Newbury) Subject: [Help]Configuring Mouse on ALR Veisa Date: 7 May 1993 15:56:39 GMT
I have just installed the TAMU distribution (extremely easy) on
an ALR VEISA machine (486/33). This critter has a bus mouse port and 1 com port
(COM1). I have two Logitech mice available, an old C7 and a newer M-CJ13 (this
is a MouseMan type). I am unable to get either mouse working on either the
com port (/dev/ttys0) or the bus port. The measly user documentation I have
for this machine only states that there is a com1 port and a bus mouse port.
The com port is at 3F8, I do not know about the bus mouse.
I have tried running /usr/X386/lib/X11/etc/v1.1/tst/mouse/mouse
(after recompiling the distribution copy). The only message I receive is
the standard "Testing such & such at so & so" "Please play with mouse"
and "Press ctrl-c to quit". I have tried all the mice/com combinations.
The M-CJ13 runs fine under DOS - but I don't want DOS. The mouse was
running off the bus port under MS Windows, but I blew that driver away
when I repartitioned my drive for Linux. (The backup is a pain to reinstall).
I am envisioning the following alternatives:
1. Upgrading to a more recent version of Linux
2. Finding a better mouse driver
3. Obtaining another serial card and attempting to configure it
4. Trying 386bsd
5. Giving up all hope of using this machine to do useful work
6. Reloading DOS and MS Windows
Other factors of the setup: TSENG 4000 video w/512K, Adaptec 1542B,
WD8013 at IRQ 3, base 240, Seagate ST4766N (650 Mb) drive, w/
100 Mb dos
16 Mb Linux swap
525 Mb Linux efs
and 16 Mb memory.
Any advice & or help would be greatly appreciated.
newbury@tec.army.mil