Sorry for replying to my own post - this is to let everyone know that the
problem has been solved.
It seems that /dev/ttyS0 has permissions set for group dialout of which I
(Ivan) was not a member. When I added myself to the group and followed Joey
Hesse's suggestions from the bug mailing list
Hello,
I'm having trouble in two areas whilst trying to learn to programme the mouse
under svgalib.
1. The programme that comes with the source mousetest.c once compiled will run
correctly for root but not for me (ivan). The error is "svgalib: Failed to
initialise mouse."
This programme is se
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