On 14-Jun-99 Ernest Johanson wrote: > I had some problems similar to this on a recent potato install. On this > machine, the Logitech PS/2 mouse connects to a separate mouse port instead > of a standard serial port. Both kernels 2.0.36 and 2.29 had the same > issue. Turned out that /dev/mouse pointed to /dev/ttyS0 when it needed to > point to /dev/psaux. Resetting the /dev/mouse symlink and setting the > protocol in /etc/gpm.conf to ps2 fixed it.
I had this exact problem, with the erroneous link too, but I had already removed gpm when I found the bad link. Is gpm something I should have? If just changing the link would fix the problem, I could reinstall it. thanks -- Andrew
