[ale] How 2 get a PS/2 mouse goin' on Debian ?

John Mills johnmills at speakeasy.net
Tue Apr 22 09:29:19 EDT 2008


Hi, Courtney -

You may also have to configure X11 ('XF86Conifg' or 'xorg.conf') to use 
'/dev/psaux' as your input device, or soft-link it as '/dev/mouse'.

Many of the X11 configuration utilities include a section to identify the 
mouse interface and test it.

  - John

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Calvin Harrigan wrote:

> Courtney Thomas wrote:
>> Is the small round 6 pin plug [like the keyboard plug] the correct socket ?
>>
>> What's the minimum process, please ?

> Minimum process is just to plug it in.  But we need more details.
> What distribution?  Is the socket labeled mouse/MS/etc?  Is it a working
> mouse?  What kind of computer?  Laptop, Desktop, White box?

> Calvin...


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