Re: no mouse (No such device)


Subject: Re: no mouse (No such device)
From: Myles Vredenburg (myles@nycap.rr.com)
Date: Sat Aug 26 2000 - 20:14:44 MDT


Kevin Heflin wrote:
>
> Well I've done it now. Trying desperately to get multibutton mouse with my
> TurboMouse, running on a G4 with imate adapter.
>
> I started off with at least a single button...
> But don't even have that anymore, when running startx I get this error:
>
> Fatal server error:
> Cannon open mouse (No such device)
>
> I'm currently running kernel 2.4.-0 test 7 which has some added support
> which I hoped to get me going with the Turbomouse. Now when I startup, i
> see some messages that it has found the iMate adapter, so I thought I was
> getting closer. But now I have absolutely no mouse at all. I've tried
> hooking up my Apple Hockey Puck, but can't get that to work either.
>
> I believe I've tried every setting in mouseconfig to no avail.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Kevin
>
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What does /dev/mouse point to? It should probably point to the device
file representing your iMate adapter. It probably doesn't.

-Myles



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