Subject: Re: Problems installing i386 1.2.1 -- EHPL!!...uh, HELP!!
To: None <greywolf@starwolf.starwolf.com (Segmentation Violation. Core>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/29/1997 11:26:01
Segmentation Violation. Core dumped. writes:
> Mike Long sez:
> /*
> * >Where's my mouse; do I need to configure it to find the mouse on the
> * >eisa
> * >port...?
> *
> * What kind of mouse do you have? If it's not a serial mouse, you
> * probably need to use one of the pms(4), lms(4), or mms(4) drivers.
> */
>
> I thought it was a serial mouse, but there's no config line for it,
Serial mice have no config lines! They are just serial devices!
> and makedev insists upon making a symlink for /dev/mouse to one of
> mms, lms or pms; besides I have lms[01] and mms[01] in there.
a) You don't want lms or mms in if you have a serial mouse. They won't
cause harm, but they do no good.
b) You don't use /dev/mouse as your mouse if you have a serial mouse!
If its in /dev/tty00, tell XFree86 that its in /dev/tty00!
> I must just be _really_ braindead/spoiled by SPARCdom. Sorry to be
> such a pain;
Its okay. Intel sucks.
> but where should it find a serial mouse if it detects that?
It won't "detect" it -- its just there...
> I only have pms[01] left to find.
PMS is only for real genuine PS/2 style mouse connector connected
mice...
Perry