In your email to me, Scott Danzig, you wrote: > > Honestly, I'll end up getting a serial adapter for the mouse if > I can't get it working, but I was hoping not to have to. I own a > Dell Dimension XPS P90 system, with a Logitech mouse. I'm honestly > not sure whether it is a bus mouse or a PS/2 mouse, but when > Windows 95 autodetects it, it registers as a PS/2 type mouse, using > IRQ 12. > I'm trying to get the mouse working with gpm and X-Windows. > I installed Debian Linux yesterday through ftp, so none of the > software is outdated. I've tried every mouse device and mouse > type combination I could find.. Devices included: > > /dev/psaux ^^^^^^^^^^ This is the one you need.
> /dev/cua0 > /dev/ttyS0 > /dev/msmouse > /dev/logibm > > They all didn't work. X-Windows would abort due to the mouse > driver failing to load, except for /dev/cua0. It loaded fine, but > the cursor wouldn't respond at all to the mouse. I'm not sure > what to try next to get gpm or X11 working, and I figured this is > a good place to ask. Debian does not come with the ps2 critter in the kernel by default. Simply recompile the kernel, and answer 'y' to mouse support and 'y' to ps2 (or psaux.. I forget). Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps "You mind if I smoke?" Joan D'Arc ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.**
