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- From: jem@snakemail.hut.fi (Johan Myreen)
- Subject: Re: PS/2 type mouse, device name, & Xconfig ?
- In-Reply-To: rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca's message of Thu, 31 Dec 1992 01:50:17 GMT
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- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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- Date: 31 Dec 92 17:56:28 GMT
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- In article <C03p3u.Jwr@ccu.umanitoba.ca> rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo) writes:
-
- >I have a PS/2 type mouse and 0.99 recognizes it during boot up.
- >The question is what is the device name for that mouse ? /dev/bm ?
-
- /dev/psaux
-
- Create with 'mknod /dev/psaux c 10 1
-
- >What is the proper entry for this kind of mouse in "Xconfig" file ?
-
- It WILL be PS/2, in the next version of XFree86 (so I've been told).
- Direct support for PS/2 mice is not in the current X release, but you
- can use the PS/2 -> Microsoft mouse protocol converter to emulate a
- Microsoft serial mouse. This program can be found on sunsite.unc.edu
- as /pub/Linux/system/ps2mouse-emul.c or on nic.funet.fi as
- /pub/OS/Linux/tools/mconv.c
-
- --
- Johan Myreen
- jem@cs.hut.fi
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