[arachne] Re: Arachne Ubuntu Linux - /dev/mouse not found

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Sorry if I'm posting badly, it seems my spambox was
catching my own posts. You can leave /dev/mouse as I
think that's where your device is /dev/input/mice, I
could be wrong tho. Symlinks have to be manually deleted.
Check /etc/vga/libvga.config and see if you have 'mouse'
set at-
mouse PS2
or
mouse IMPS2
One of those should let it work in Arachne.
Rob

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On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, Michael Reichenbach wrote:


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Rob schrieb:

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Hey, Michael
Your problem maybe the fact you have no /dev/mouse in
your /dev directory. You need to symlink the device your
mouse is using to /dev/mouse. I noticed you have several
possibilities that your system maybe using. On my system
/dev/mouse is linked to /dev/input/mice. Yours could be
using that or /dev/psaux or /dev/input/mouse0 1 2 or 3.
Even something else. If you could post your xorg.conf file,
I may be able to figure out what device driver your system
is using.


Ok. Here is my /etc/X11/xorg.conf: http://www.nopaste.com/p/aJLk4fs5m


If nothing else, a tedious but possibly effective
way to get it working would be to symlink each one in turn
to find out which is being used, but that would be a last
resort. Try this command.
#>ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse
Then see if it works, there are only so many devices for a
PS2 mouse.
Rob


This made the installer happy, but mouse didn't work.

I did also test
ln -s /dev/input/mice /dev/mouse

installer ok, mouse no function.

How long the symlinks are active? Until reboot or until manual deletion?

Do I need to delete the symlinks and how?

regards,
-mr
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