RE: Trackball in X
On 22-Jan-99 Brian Morgan wrote:
> Now trying to use a built in trackball from my laptop as the mouse, and
> can't seem to make it work. A serial mouse attached to the back works just
> fine. Is there another device name (other than /dev/ttyS0) that I need to
> use from the XF86Setup? I haven't tried all of them, but is there a
> particular mouse type (microsoft, logitech, auto) that works best on these
> trackballs? I've enabled it in CMOS, so it should work ok. Any
> suggestions?
>
> Thanks again everyone.
>
Most laptop mice actually use the ps/2 protocol, try making a link in /dev from
psaux to mouse and tell X to use /dev/mouse.
This has the advantage that if you mouse changes, you just change the link.
The link command is ln -s <existing file> <link name>.
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