User Feedback :: mouse problems on i486

Hello

I've been trying DSL on a Pentium 4, Pentium 3 and Pentium 2. It just works great on them.

Now I've been playing around to get DSL running on a pentium 133 Mhz with 48MB(though DSL recognizes it as an i486), and I don't seem to get the serial mouse working.

A week ago I installed FreeBSD on this old pentium and my mouse worked fine on COM2 (/dev/ttyS1).

DSL also tells me it's finding a serial mouse on ttyS1, but after X started up, it just doesn't work. I can see the pointer, but I can't move it.

I've tried Ctrl+Alt+Del to remove and relink /dev/mouse to /dev/ttyS0, /dev/ttyS1, /dev/ttyS2 as suggested in the search results on "mouse" on this forum. Still it doesn't work :-(

Does anyone has an idea or workaround for this problem?

Thx in advance!

Try editing your .xserverrc file in your home directory.
Replace the link to the mouse with /dev/ttyS1

Also, try /dev/ttyS0 in case the ports are swapped.

Good Luck.

Another suggestion.

On one box I found the ln-s /dev/ttys0 /dev/mouse
wouldn't work until I had done

rm /dev/mouse as root
then type the ln -s line.
HTH

original here.