[ale] Ubuntu mouse woes ...

[James Sumners]

Serial? Sweet heavens PS2 mice are almost as prolific as their
namesake and USB mice are gaining ground.

Any way, I am more than sure you will have to install gpm (`sudo
apt-get install gpm`) as it is definitely not a default package. You
will also want to make sure the "sermouse" kernel module is loaded
(`modprobe sermouse`).

On 6/27/05, Courtney Thomas <ccthomas at joimail.com> wrote:
> How do I install a serial mouse under Ubuntu 5.04 ?
> 
> I've booted up the default config as I was getting a kernel panic
> otherwise, and /dev/psmouse is the default.
> 
> I....
>         rmmod psmouse
> 
> and
>         ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/mouse
> 
> but, no mouse, plus gpm is not running nor does a find locate the
> program on the machine.
> 
> In a nutshell what ALL is required to get a mouse going under Linux, in
> general ?
> 
> Thank you,
> Courtney
> 
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