Maybe I miss worded the results
I set the bios to be internal
the PS2 mouse gets found by "gpm"
But the track ball does not work
Sam
Munir Nassar wrote:
>On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Sam MacDonald wrote:
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>>Well I think I found the problem but I'm not sure what to do.
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>>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"
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>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)
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>my recommendation: set the Trackpad to use PS2, make sure all the serial ports are enabled in the bios.
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>in debian, install gpm and configure to use /dev/ttyS0 or /dev/ttyS1
>basically: gpm -t <mousetype> -m /dev/ttyS0
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>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.
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>Munir Nassar
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