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skiingprep
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 Posted: Sun May 18, 2003 11:09 pm Post subject: "Eraser head mice" |
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Has anyone successfuly configured an "eraser head" mouse (the little joystick thing inbetween the G and H keys on my compaq lte 5300 laptop).
Do I have to change the pointer protocol or possibly even the device location?
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MasonMouse
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2003 1:08 am Post subject: Re: "Eraser head mice" |
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| skiingprep wrote: | Has anyone successfuly configured an "eraser head" mouse (the little joystick thing inbetween the G and H keys on my compaq lte 5300 laptop).
Do I have to change the pointer protocol or possibly even the device location?
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The system should just see it as a PS/2 mouse. At least it does on my Thinkpad and it did on my old LTE 5300 also. There may be some proprietary ones out there but yours isn't among them that I'm aware of.
Edit: Here's the relevant section of my XF86Config...
| Code: | Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Trackpoint"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSection
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skiingprep
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2003 1:49 am Post subject: Re: "Eraser head mice" |
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| MasonMouse wrote: | | skiingprep wrote: | Has anyone successfuly configured an "eraser head" mouse (the little joystick thing inbetween the G and H keys on my compaq lte 5300 laptop).
Do I have to change the pointer protocol or possibly even the device location?
thanks |
The system should just see it as a PS/2 mouse. At least it does on my Thinkpad and it did on my old LTE 5300 also. There may be some proprietary ones out there but yours isn't among them that I'm aware of.
Edit: Here's the relevant section of my XF86Config...
| Code: | Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Trackpoint"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSection
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Hi, could you post your entire xf86config? I've tried using the standard PS/2... the only difference is that I named my section "Mouse0" instead of "Trackpoint" but I don't think that should matter?
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Section "Server Layout"
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InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
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Am I missing kernel support or something?
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skiingprep
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2003 11:49 am Post subject: |
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Is there a way I can see which devices are being used?
ex. I've heard /dev/psaux is used instead of /dev/mouse for some laptops..
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MasonMouse
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As far as I know, pretty much all kernels have PS/2 support already built in so you'd have had to take that out intentionally. The device Gentoo uses for PS/2 is /dev/misc/psaux and /dev/mouse should just be a symbolic link to that.
Doing "cat /proc/interrupts" should tell you if a PS/2 device is using any resources, usually IRQ 12. Also, my XF86Config file probably wouldn't be much help as the rest is specific to my hardware but this might help you out a little. And no, it doesn't matter what you call your mouse in the XF86Config file as long as you're consistent with the name. |
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skiingprep
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| MasonMouse wrote: | As far as I know, pretty much all kernels have PS/2 support already built in so you'd have had to take that out intentionally. The device Gentoo uses for PS/2 is /dev/misc/psaux and /dev/mouse should just be a symbolic link to that.
Doing "cat /proc/interrupts" should tell you if a PS/2 device is using any resources, usually IRQ 12. Also, my XF86Config file probably wouldn't be much help as the rest is specific to my hardware but this might help you out a little. And no, it doesn't matter what you call your mouse in the XF86Config file as long as you're consistent with the name. |
Hi, thanks for the help.
I did a cat /proc/interrupts and did not see any PS/2 device.
Upon searching google I've noticed that you are required to have PSM (ex. psm0) support built into the kernel.
perhaps i need to check menu config for this option? |
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MasonMouse
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| skiingprep wrote: | Upon searching google I've noticed that you are required to have PSM (ex. psm0) support built into the kernel.
perhaps i need to check menu config for this option? |
I've not heard of that device but as long as you have multiple kernels to boot from in case it messes up, it can't hurt to try. Looking at the kernel config, I see PS/2 support is found under Character Devices > Mice > PS/2 so you might want to check there first. Since there's nothing in your /proc about the mouse, it sounds like your support is missing as you suspected. |
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