On Saturday, Sep 20, 2003, at 10:07 US/Central, Munir Nassar wrote: > On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Sam MacDonald wrote: > >> Well I think I found the problem but I'm not sure what to do. >> >> The track ball is configured in the BIOS of the computer, it has 2 >> settings, internal or serial. >> I believe the internal is a PS2 mouse connection. >> I set the BIOS to be serial >> The PS2 mouse gets found by "gpm" >> I set the BIOS to be internal >> the PS2 mouse gets found by "gpm" > > the BIOS has really nothing to do with the mouse you are adding. i > suspect that that setting that yo are playing with controls what the > trackpad apears like to the OS. (just like on todays computers you can > have a USB keyboard apear as a PS2 keyboard) > > my recommendation: set the Trackpad to use PS2, make sure all the > serial ports are enabled in the bios. uhhh serial ports have nothing to do with PS2 > > in debian, install gpm and configure to use /dev/ttyS0 or /dev/ttyS1 > basically: gpm -t <mousetype> -m /dev/ttyS0 gpm -t <mousetype> -m /dev/psaux > > do a gpm -t help for available mouse types, choose one that sounds > somewhat close. i have yet to find something with an exact match. > > Munir Nassar > RedConcepts.NET > http://redconcepts.net/ > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -- Ben Lutgens http://us-admins.com/~blutgens/ US Admins, Inc System Administrator / Server Gumby _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list