Brad,
Do you know any howto that describes this procedure of using a serial mouse
in Jornada?
I think that the hard issue in it is to hack all this softwares, isn't it?

Thanks,
Rafael Diniz

Em Qui 18 Dez 2003 20:00, Brad Spencer escreveu:
>    Brad Spencer <brad@anduin.eldar.org>  wrote:
>     >    Has anyone tried to connect a serial mouse in Jornada through th=
at
>     > port in the back?
>     >    That would solve the problems related to stylus limitations...
>
>    "that port on the back"?  As in the "usb-device" port?
>
>    That's the equivalent of asking whether someone has tried plugging a
> mouse into a USB camera.
>
>
> Not exactly what I am refering to....
>
> My Jornada 720 connects to a docking station that provides USB for the
> purposes of syncing to an external storage system.  This isn't the port
> that I am talking about or what was asked in the original email.  Indeed,
> and unfortunally, it appears that the 720 has some sort of custom USB
> thingie in it that really does all of the sync up work, instead of having
> the thingie in the docking station itself.  The specs for the chips used
> in the 720 imply that there should be a normal USB controller in there
> some place but there does not appear to be any access to the controller.
>
> There is a port on the back of mine that is actually a fairly normal
> serial port.  The connector for it looks a bit like a USB connector and is
> on the left side if you are looking at the back of the battery.  It is
> often used for serial consoles, but if you choose not to do that, you can
> use it for a serial mouse.  You just need to have wskbd / wsmux / wsmouse
> support in your kernel, an X server that will use wscons and a slight
> recompile of moused [due to signed-char issues].  This will all work fine
> and provide you with a serial mouse instead of the stylus device.

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