macintosh ppclinux: how to get mouse to work?

[Max Blanco]

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Byron Q. Desnoyers Winmill wrote:

> I guess I shouldn't have jumped the gun so quickly.  If /dev/input/mice
> doesn't work, search for /dev/adbmouse.  It should emulate a PS/2 mouse.
> Then again, dmesg is suggesting that /dev/input/mice will work.

I have a /dev/adb.  Will that work?  I will put /dev/adb into 
/etc/gpm.conf and see... nope, still no response.

# tail -f /dev/adb
or
# tail -f /dev/psaux
don't work because they are special devices and tail doesn't work with 
special devices.

# dmesg | grep -i adb
adb devices: [2] 2 1 [3]: 3 1
ADB keyboard at 2, handler 1
Detected ADB keyboard, type ANSI
input1: ADB HID on ID 2:2.01
ADB mouse at 3, handler set to 2
input2: ADB HID on ID 3:3.01

If anybody can figure this out, I'd be pleased to hear from you...

I have an idea: the mouse is connected to the keyboard.  Therefore, the 
keyboard device will be the mouse device?  Which is the keyboard device on 
macppc??

Argh.

Byron: does your mouse connect through your keyboard?
Byron: do you have gpm set up?
Byron: Is your keyboard a usb device?

tia,
max.

> On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Max Blanco wrote:
> > # 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.


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