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- From: jem@snakemail.hut.fi (Johan Myreen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Mouse on HP 486/33T?
- Message-ID: <JEM.92Nov16215430@lk-hp-6.hut.fi>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 19:54:30 GMT
- References: <1992Nov14.014950.1627@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com>
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- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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- In-Reply-To: grant@hpmcaa's message of 14 Nov 92 01:49:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov14.014950.1627@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com> grant@hpmcaa (Grant Garner) writes:
-
- >Has anyone gotten the "Mini-DIN" mouse on an HP Vectra 486/33T to work?
-
- >The slight info I've been able to find says it's PS/2 compatible, but
- >I sure can't seem to get it going.
-
- First you need to create an entry in /dev for it:
-
- mknod /dev/psaux c 10 1
-
- There is no direct PS/2 mouse support in XFree86 yet, so to use the
- mouse with X you'll have to use the mconv mouse protocol conversion
- utility, which can be found on nic.funet.fi, in
- /pub/OS/Linux/utils/tools/mconv.c. This program converts the packets
- sent by the PS/2 mouse into the corresponding ones from a Microsoft
- mouse, so you can fool X telling it you have a Microsoft serial
- mouse instead. Instructions for use are included in the source file.
-
- I've been putting pressure (very slight so far :-) on the XFree86
- development team to get direct PS/2 mouse support into X. Let's hope
- it makes it into the next release, so we won't need the mconv hack
- anymore.
-
- --
- Johan Myreen
- jem@cs.hut.fi
-