🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 15:03:01 -0700 in comp.os.linux.help, "Larry Clark"
<netadmin@discflo.com> uttered the following profound gem of wisdom:

>help...my mouse doesn't work...justr a generic mouse...and I start
>xwindows...and I can't seem to get the start button to open up...yes this is
>my first crack at red hat linux..thanks larry ,
>PS how do I close down xwoindows without the mouse...

Someone already mentioned the keyboard shortcut to quit X
(Ctrl-Alt-Bkspace), so I'll see if I can help you get your mouse
working. I had this problem my first time trying to install RedHat
5.1. You should check to see if the connector your mouse uses to plug
into your computer is circular (ps/2) or somewhat rectangular
(serial). If it's the first, then you should run either
"xconfigurator", "FX86Config", or "SetupXF86" and when it asks you for
the device path, give "/dev/psaux" without the quotation marks. If
it's the second, then "/dev/mouse" should work, although I can't say
for certain as I've never tried to setup a serial mouse in linux. HTH.


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