Xorg 7.4 release plan

Alexander E. Patrakov patrakov at gmail.com
Wed Feb 27 03:56:10 PST 2008


Bill Crawford wrote:

> Um, where do we fit serial mice into evdev?[0]
> 
> [0] Yes, I'm still using my mouse in serial mode at home. No, I don't
> feel embarrassed. Yes I have a reason ....

Run "modprobe sermouse" and then "inputattach --intellimouse /dev/ttyS1 &" 
commands (google for inputattach.c). Inputattach will pretend that you have a 
shiny new PS/2 mouse available through both /dev/input/mice, /dev/input/mouseX 
and /dev/input/eventY interfaces.

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Alexander E. Patrakov




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