Re: PS/2 mice does not work in RHL8 after several uses of the PC

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From: M. Cano
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 19:24

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Mario de Sousa Dias wrote:

> Hello everyone
> 
> I am having problems with PS/2 mice.
> 
> When I first instaled RHLinux 8.0 (every package) everything worked out
> fine. Both graphical and text mode were fine.
> I have RHL for personal use at home, so when I do not neet it I shut down
> the machine. After a few time of use of RHL at the startup procedure of
> the operating system a message appeared on the screen telling me something
> went wrong with the mouse.
> The mouse does not work both in text and graphical mode (I mean the X
> server does not start at all). I run the command mouseconfig several times
> with several kinds of mouse types. but that didn't help me very much.
> Curiously, when I selected �No Mouse� Xwindows started correctly but up
> with no mouse set..
> 
> Thank you so much for your help
> 
> 
> Mario S. Dias
> e-mail: mario_d@clix.pt
> 
> PS: I have two PS2 type mice with 2 buttons.

        I think you must make a symbolic link to /dev/psaux.

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