On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 03:54:27 GMT, Boris Badenuff <boris@badenuff.com> wrote:
>"William Hamblen" <william.hamblen@earthlink.net> wrote in message
>news:81lUa.22044$Mc.1683727@newsread1.prod.itd.ea rthlink.net...
>> In article <vi39sionlnjr60@corp.supernews.com>, Boris Badenuff wrote:
>> > I was in the process of running XF86Setup when I ran into a snag at the
>> > mouse page; I couldn't get the mouse to respond. I tried all the mouse
>> > protocols from the list, but nothing. I didn't go through the whole
>> > list of Mouse Devices due to time, but I figured I'd ask this question
>> > in here: is there anything specific off the list I should be looking to
>> > go for?
>>
>> If your mouse plugs into a PS/2 style connector then 99 and 44/100% of the
>> time your mouse device is "/dev/psaux" and the mouse protocol is "ps2".
>>
>Thanks for the replies. I again forgot one important detail - that it is a
>standard meat-and-potatoes PS/2 mouse. I'll try PS/2 for the mouse protocol
>and "/dev/psaux" for the mouse device and I'll see how it goes.

Good idea. On my system, /dev/mouse is symlinked to /dev/misc/psaux.
(I've a Red Hat system remember.) The reason for this is so that an app can
be hard coded to look for /dev/mouse, as opposed to having to be configured
at run time to look for something else (/dev/psaux, /dev/ttyS0, etc).

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