Mouse support in Slackware 4.0

[Sam Clippinger]

When last we left our heroes, cruller had just said:
>     I've installed slackware 4.0 on my box and am bumping my head on the
> 
> mouse serial port in X.  'dmesg' states there is a PS/2 mouse.  and that
> 
> there are serial ports ttyS00 on irq3 and ttyS01 on irq4. I should be
> able to simply link /dev/mouse to ttyS00 or ttyS01 and under xf86config
> config the mouse as a PS/2 on /ttyS0[1,2].  however /dev/ttyS0[0,1]
> doesn't exist.  so I try  #sh MAKEDEV ttyS00 and I get back "Sorry I
> don't know how to build that device."
[snip]

If the kernel detects the mouse, the IRQs and such are probably already
correct (enough).  But AFAIK, ttyS* is for serial devices, not "other"
mice.

My laptop has a built-in mouse that is identified to the kernel as a PS/2
mouse.  It is accessed through a device named /dev/psaux (major 10, minor
1).  The XF86Config Pointer section reads:
  Section "Pointer"
    Protocol "ps/2"
    Device "/dev/psaux"
    Emulate3Buttons
    Emulate3Timeout 50
  EndSection

This is with kernel version 2.0.35 and XFree86 3.3.2; your mileage may
vary.  I hope that helps...

                                -sam

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