Re: Mouse support Q

["Milan P. Stanic" <mps@rns-nis.co.yu>]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:53:09PM -0600, Andrew B. Cramer wrote:
> 	The mouse I have is a M/S Ballpoint. It does support both serial and 
> PS/2 modes. The problem is I cannot just put an adapter cable on the 
> other end past the Belken KVM. It does not work. The KVM buffers all 
> lines and maintains serial states. It does not put the connection 
> directly through. Since that doesn't work, I'd like to be able to 
> change the PS/2 driver to Serial on the fly. I would do this without 
> having X11 running, just the base system. I tried changing the mouse 
> symbolic link, but since the serial has not been initialized to the 
> mouse, that does not seem to work either. (hrumpf).

I don't know anything about "Belken KVM" (and what is that) but I have
on my old notebook (Compaq armada) serial and PS/2 (PS/2 is built-in
trackball) both configured and they both works in the same time. So,
it is possible to use two mouse simultaneously with xfree 4.x.x.

Milan