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- From: jem@snakemail.hut.fi (Johan Myreen)
- Subject: Re: Dell PS/2 type mouse in X
- In-Reply-To: hunley@wam.umd.edu's message of Wed, 9 Dec 1992 23:17:07 GMT
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- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- References: <1992Dec9.231707.24498@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: 11 Dec 92 20:13:11 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec9.231707.24498@wam.umd.edu> hunley@wam.umd.edu (Joshua Hunley) writes:
-
- > I am having trouble getting my ps/2 style microsoft mouse to
- >work in X. I set the mouse to "Microsoft" "/dev/dmouseps2" in Xconfig
- >and can get the mouse to move some. It will only move acress the top of
- >the screen sporaticaly.
- > Any ideas on how to fox this problem? The mouse works fine under
- >ms-windows and with the mouse test program in the SLS X distribution.
-
- The PS/2 mouse does not use the same protocol as the Microsoft serial
- mouse. The X server does not yet support the PS/2 mouse protocol, so
- you'll need to use the mconv mouse protocol converter available on
- nic.funet.fi in pub/OS/Linux/tools/mconv.c. Instructions for use are
- included in the file.
-
- --
- Johan Myreen
- jem@cs.hut.fi
-