X and mouse, probably obvious to all but me

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From: James V. Silverton
Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 00:00

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The title gives most of the reason for this post but I am very puzzled
and would be grateful for suggestions.
After setting up network support, I found that startx would not! In    
X86Config, I had a PS/2 mouse set-up with /dev/mouse and, of course,
a symbolic link in /dev:    psaux mouse. If I deleted mouse, linked it
to cua0, startx ran but the mouse was inoperative. Exiting, removing the
mouse link and relinking produced a working X window (fvwm) with mouse
support but only until the next reboot when the rigmarole had to be
repeated.
The problem was fixed by putting "dev/psaux" in XF86Config but I am still
puzzled.
Any ideas would be most welcome.
Jim.


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