Mouse support in Slackware 4.0

[cruller]

That did the trick!  I'm happily mousing around!

Thanks Much!

Gerald

Sam Clippinger wrote:

> 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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