Henrik Carlqvist wrote:
> sammy <sammy@mycybernet.net> wrote:
>
>>I have installed Slack 12 with PS2 mouse but now I'd like to switch to
>>serial. I found the script /var/log/setup/setup.mouse , which I ran
>>tried ms msc bare but nothing.
>
>
> That script is mostly for configuring gpm. Gpm is a program which allows
> you to use the mouse for copy and paste in a text console. I don't think
> many people use gpm these days.
>
>
This is probably not essential if you can't cut/paste between consoles,
or can you? Totally forgot what it was for.

>>tried changing /dev/mouse->/dev/input/mice to point to /dev/input/mouse0
>>but that always reverts to /dev/input/mice after reboot.
>
>
> The reverting is probably done by udev. You could try to comment out a
> line in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules
>
> # KERNEL=="mice", NAME="input/%k", MODE="0644", SYMLINK+="mouse"
>
>
I never even looked at /dev/input/ prior to all this and only hoping
mouse0 was a newly found device, although I should have looked at the
creation date.

>>after fiddling with these for a while and using minicom to set the
>>serial port to 1200, I had the cursor moving after I ran
>>/etc/rc.d/rc.gpm restart, but only until reboot ( and a break forgetting
>>what just transpired. )
>
>
> So you really want to use gpm? If you only wan't the mouse to work in X
> you should also edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf to change mouse protocol.
>
>
>>So now I looked at /etc/rc.d/modules-2.6.21.5.smp (thought I chose non
>>SMP kernel , at least the first time ) which was probing for ps2mouse
>>comented it out , uncomented modprobe sermouse, but after reboot lsmod
>>still shows psmouse module loaded but no other mouse???
>>
>>Another odd thing is that serial 1 is not in the /proc/interrupts.
>
>
> I wasn't even aware there was such a module as sermouse. In the good old
> days when I used a serial mouse things was simple. /dev/mouse was a
> symbolic link to /dev/ttyS0 and the protocol was choosen in XF86Config.
>
> regards Henrik

/ttyS0 yes that makes sense and that's most likely what I did when it worked,
if I can only figure out/remember how to use setserial to init the port to 1200
at boot.

So is modules-2.6.21.5.smp still useful for anything?
Can't remember if my network card worked after install,
but probably didn't even think of trying it.

Thank you for the UDEV info.