On 22-Jan-99 Brian Morgan wrote: > Now trying to use a built in trackball from my laptop as the mouse, and > can't seem to make it work. A serial mouse attached to the back works just > fine. Is there another device name (other than /dev/ttyS0) that I need to > use from the XF86Setup? I haven't tried all of them, but is there a > particular mouse type (microsoft, logitech, auto) that works best on these > trackballs? I've enabled it in CMOS, so it should work ok. Any > suggestions? > > Thanks again everyone. >
Most laptop mice actually use the ps/2 protocol, try making a link in /dev from psaux to mouse and tell X to use /dev/mouse. This has the advantage that if you mouse changes, you just change the link. The link command is ln -s <existing file> <link name>.
