macintosh ppclinux: how to get mouse to work?

[Max Blanco]

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Byron Sonne wrote:

> > I cannot use my mouse as is.  This is due to my lack of familiarity with 
> > ppclinux.  I do not know how to set up my gpm.conf, specifically, which 
> > /dev file to use.
> 
> I can't help much either, but perhaps someone can with a little more 
> info... what type of mac and what type of mouse/mouse interface? (usb, etc)
> 
> If it's usb and a new machine I might be able to take a look at my 
> wife's OSX box upstairs and deduce something from that.
> 

No.  It's an OldWorld beige G3 machine with a standard serial interface, 
through the keyboard.
# dmesg | grep mouse
input0: Macintosh mouse button evaluation
ADB mouse at 3, handler set to 2
mouse0: PS/2 mouse device for input2
mouse1: PS/2 mouse device for input0
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice.

Your OSX box may not help much.




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