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> I would like to thank the people who sent a response about installing > Linux on a ThinkPad. Once I used > boot: mount root=/dev/fd0 floppy=thinkpad > the boot process (off the boot and root floppies) went fine and I > have since installed Linux as well as most of the other *goodies* like > emacs and TeX. Hurray! > I have just gotten XFree86 to work except for the following ... > > To recognize the trackpoint, X-windows seems to need a device with > the file name /dev/bmouseps2. When I looked in the my Linux /dev > directory, I didn't see a bmouseps2 file. All I saw was a mouse file > and so I have configured XFConfig with /dev/mouse instead of > /dev/bmouseps2 Would anyone know where I could get either a binary > of /dev/smouseps2 or the source to compile it? The device to use is /dev/psaux. It should already be in your /dev directory. You may need to compile your own kernel and include PS/2 type mouse support. > Thanks in advance. > - Allen Moy +----------------------------Ren & Stimpy--------------------------------+ | "Psst. Hey Guido. It's all so clear to me now. I'm the keeper of the | | cheese. And you're the lemon merchant. Get it? And he knows it. That's | | why he's gonna kill us. So we gotta beat it. Yeah. Before he lets | | loose the marmosets on us! Don't worry, little missy! I'll save you!" | +------------------ Brad Pepers -- pepersb@cuug.ab.ca -------------------+