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- From: cfs@cowpas.waffle.atl.ga.us (Charles Stephens)
- Subject: Re: X and microsoft bus mouse?
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- Organization: COW Pastures
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:51:08 GMT
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- ee3jmb@festival.ed.ac.uk (J Brickwood) writes:
- : I am having trouble getting X386 to work with my
- : MS bus mouse. I have /dev/mouse symbolically linked
- : to /dev/bmousems and the kernel seems to detect
- : and install the driver at boot time....However, when
- : firing up X I am unable to move anything/press buttons.
- : i.e. X starts OK but I have no mouse !
- : Xconfig contains the mouse control line,
- :
- : busmouse "/dev/mouse"
-
- I found the same problem with my MouseMan serial. Just hardlink
- the two files, or use /dev/bmousems in Xconfig.
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- Charles Stephens
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