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Re: /dev/psaux No Such Device

Hi,

Perhaps you could try making a symlink from
/dev/mouse to /dev/psaux

cd /dev
ln -s psaux mouse

You may need to delete mouse first

rm mouse

Good luck, tell me how you solve it.

Steven Gibson
http://www.superant.com/smalllinux/

--- In smalllinux@y..., "tyrael56" <info@m...> wrote:
> im tryin to get X running and it works so far, just the mouse makes
> problems.
> X dont start and says
> Fatal Server Error
> Cannot open Mouse (No Such Device)
>
> i have set Protocol to PS/2 and Device to /dev/psaux
> in the XF86Config file.
>
> ive read all the mails related to this problem, but none says
> how to fix it!
>
> onny

Mon Oct 14, 2002 5:49 am

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im tryin to get X running and it works so far, just the mouse makes problems. X dont start and says Fatal Server Error Cannot open Mouse (No Such Device) i...	tyrael56	Oct 14, 2002 5:24 am
Hi, Perhaps you could try making a symlink from /dev/mouse to /dev/psaux cd /dev ln -s psaux mouse You may need to delete mouse first rm mouse Good luck, tell...	Steven Gibson smalllinux	Oct 14, 2002 5:49 am
no luck so far, i also forgott to say that its a laptop (Compaq contura 4/25c) and its 10 years old ive chevked the port itself too, i installed windows 3.11...	ONNY tyrael56	Oct 14, 2002 6:12 pm
Hi, You should be able to check the presence of slip by typing: dmesg \| more BTW, what version of Small Linux are you using. Steven Gibson ...	Steven Gibson smalllinux	Oct 14, 2002 6:18 pm
it says "Serial Driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled" when i use dmesg, and im using 0.7.5 with the 0.8.1 kernel(which seems excact the same) and...	ONNY tyrael56	Oct 15, 2002 10:25 pm
Hi, If you do not see the word slip or cslip in the dmesg text, that means slip support is not built into the kernel. You need to load the slip kernel module...	Steven Gibson smalllinux	Oct 15, 2002 10:36 pm
Ok i got it :) everything works now i just typed insmod slip.o and another file i forgot and it worked.. now another question, i read somehwere i can use...	ONNY tyrael56	Oct 16, 2002 4:07 am
Hi, Small Linux 0.7.5 and Small Linux 0.8.1 are not compatible at the binary level. They use different libraries. I believe you are using 0.7.5 Slackware 3.3...	smalllinux@... smalllinux	Oct 16, 2002 5:56 pm
no i have installed 0.8.1 yesterday (wow that was tricky!) thx for the tip with ldd but: ldd: error in loading shared libarys cannot open shared object file:...	ONNY tyrael56	Oct 16, 2002 6:07 pm
Hi, Well, since you are using 0.8.1 you can't use Slackware 3.3 binaries. I am a Debian user, so I know that you can use Debian 2.0 binaries. The glibc used...	smalllinux@... smalllinux	Oct 16, 2002 11:53 pm

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