--- Weaver Weaver <palmweaver@hotmail.com> wrote: > slitt@troubleshooters.com > > > Sir: 10.06.02 > > I'm running Red Hat 7.1 on a Toshiba laptop and I'm > having trouble finding > all the config files to do with the mouse. Current > error message is: > > Oops (): invoked from gpm.c 984 /dev/mouse I/O error > > Now, I've bought all the thick books and have > searched exhaustively on the > net to find someone to help me, but I can't even get > the mouse working in > the Xwindows and shell at the same time. The latest > is I've somehow deleted > the /dev/mouse directory. I know of 2 config files, > namely > /etc/sysconfig/mouse and /etc/X11/XF86config but the > question is, are there > more? Is it preferable to do it by hand or use > programs like gpm? I think > the trouble started when I ran gpm and selected the > 'no mouse' option. > That's when the directory went. XF86 starts up but > the mouse is frozen. You're thinking in kinda the right way, but my guess is not that XFree86 or GPM is misconfigured, but rather that you nuked /dev/mouse. I personally never use /dev/mouse, but generally, it's a link to the real mouse (that would be /dev/psaux for PS/2, /dev/ttyS0 or /dev/ttyS1 for serial, and /dev/input/mouse0 or /dev/input/mice for USB). First, see if /dev/mouse exists (ls /dev/mouse should do the trick). If it does, use ls -l to see what it's linked to. If it doesn't, do ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse, which creates a link from /dev/psaux (the PS/2 mouse) to /dev/mouse. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com
