[ale] gpm and X window

[Sage]

Okay, I have treied just about everything but the right thing and read almost every HOWTO on the subject, and I still can't get X window to open up the mouse device file.

Installed Slackwasre 7.1. It warned me during install that there might be a problem opening up the the mouse file. Message was as follows;

if Xfree86 complains it can't open mouse, either comment out the line  

gpm -m /dev/mouse -t bare

from /etc/rc.d.rc.gpm

or add -R to gpm and set up X to use /dev/gpmdata as your mouse device.

well, I did all that. when booting, the system sees a mouse connection as a P2/2 (I think that was the name), but my mouse is connected at either ttyS0 or ttyS1. I am wondering if that is part of the problem, for starters. I was told that is was a standard two button Microsoft mouse, with a 9 pin trapezoidal connection.

I also edited XF86Config and XF86Config-fdev (again, I'm fairly certain that last file name is right...it's almost identical to the first, anyway.) I am not certain that I did this correctly, however. I used Protocol Auto, and Device ttyS0, and also tried Device ttyS1.

I keep getting this error message;

open_framebuffer:failed to open /dev/fd0 (No such device)

Can anyone help, please?

-Indira Moyer
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