Subject: Re: Serial mouse problem
To: Ruibiao Qiu <ruibiao@arl.wustl.edu>
From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.3miasto.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/11/2001 23:17:47
> Subject: Serial mouse problem
>
> Hi, all
>
> I am having problem setting up the serial mouse in X on an i386 box. I dont
> have a PS/2 mouse port on the motherboard. Instead, I use a serial mouse
> connected to the com1 port. It works under Windoze, but I cant get it work
> under X. How should I choose the "Protocol" and "Device" in XF86Config? I
microsoft probably and /dev/tty00 (or dty00)
> tried almost all protocols, and /dev/tty00 as device. BTW, can I make it to
> use wsmouse too?
unfortunately no. wsmouse doesn't have serial mouse support.