From: ag794@Freenet.carleton.ca (Tony Cifelli) Subject: mouse trouble Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 13:05:23 GMT
The woes continue. Will Tony get X up and running? Tune
in next week ....
Well thanks to someone who mailed me a re-compiled Xserver
my ATI GU+ is now displaying the X environment. It appears
that the next hurdle to surpass is getting the mouse to
work. Its is stuck in the center of the screen.
I am using the mouse that comes with the GU+. It is a busmouse.
It is connected to IRQ2. In DOS, the driver it uses is a
Microsoft Busmouse. When I re-compile the Linux kernel with
this option, set my Xconfig to Microsoft/Busmouse and set
the appropriate link for /dev/mouse the X Server fails to
startup at all, saying it couldn't initialize the mouse
(a core device). When I re-compile the kernel specifying
the Logitech busmouse, and do the appropriate things
in Xconfig and /dev/mouse, the X environment comes up,
but the mouse is not working. BTW, during restart, the
kernel detects a Logitech mouse. When I use the Microsoft
option in the kernel, the mouse is not detected during
restarts.
What could be the problem? Are my IRQs ok? Can I tell
Linux to use IRQ2 for the mouse explicitly? Why is Linux
detecting a Logitech mouse while DOS sees a Microsoft
busmouse? I have a Fax/modem on COM1 (using IRQ4). Could
this be the complicating factor? How do I tell Linux
I have a Fax/modem there?
regards,
Tony.
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