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tecknophreak
07-30-2001, 09:41 AM
I've got slackware installed and I'm trying to get the XF86 configured using XF86Setup. I can't seem to get my mouse to work. It's a Kennsington(sp?) mouse, 2 button, serial or ps/2 connection. I started with the ps/2 then no luck with that, then went to serial, no luck there either. I tried almost every protocol too(started with microsoft). If anyone out there has an answer, it'd be much apprieciated.
jaygee432
07-30-2001, 10:33 AM
My ps/2 mouse seems to only work with the generic ps/2 protocol, but it sounds like you must have tried that by now? Don't know why it should matter, but if XF86Setup is not working for you, you might try xf86config. ;)
WCox
07-30-2001, 12:39 PM
You might want to try XFree86 -configure. It detected my mouse correctly, also my monitor. Hope this works.
tecknophreak
07-30-2001, 12:50 PM
Member 572!! :eek: I didn't think they even started numbering until 1000+! I'll have to check that out, thanks!
tecknophreak
07-31-2001, 08:22 AM
When I got home last night, I checked out the mouse problem. Here's how I got it working:

PS/2 protocol
/dev/psaux

No where did I see this /dev/psaux mentioned when I was trying to set up the PS/2 mouse, I was told(slackware essentials which came with the cds) to use either /dev/ttyS0 or /dev/mouse. So I found this and said what the hell, nothing else was working, and it worked!!!

Now I've got slackware running, w/o any net yet, i got carried away writing a little program. I defaulted to KDE instead of GNOME(I've got a 150 P, slow) and KDE is fast!! Well, faster. I want to try BlackBox next.
WCox
07-31-2001, 05:43 PM
Here is what my /etc/X11/XF86Config file says how my mouse is set up:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"

Hope this helps. And yes I am member #572, I believe the numbering started at 40.
UltraMagnus
08-01-2001, 01:34 PM
I had problems with my mouse also and the first time I was installing slack, it asked if I wanted to turn gpm on or something like that. I said yes the first time and my mouse wouldn't work, no matter what I did. I reformated, reinstalled, got to the same question, and chose no this time. No problems ever since. =)