Re: I made a bol***cks of it!

On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Ian W. Wright wrote:

> 1. What is missing to start up the mouse - it is still attached to
> 'COM1' and, when linux boots I notice that it still claims to be loading
> 'gmu' mouse driver but it is totally unresponsive.

Probably you are refering to gpm, which is a program that adds mouse
functionality when you work in console mode (no X windows). gpm can be
configured by itself to work with a serial mouse, do man gpm to find out
the suported mouse types.

If the problem comes from the fact that your kernel has no mouse suport
compiled in, then the best thing to do is compile it again (never be
afraid of re-compiling a kernel in linux):

goto /usr/src/linux

make config (and answer the questions, read them), pay attention to the
config serial and config mouse options, then

make dep
make zImage or make boot (depending on the system)

you should find a freshly compiled kernel at /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/zImage,
copy it to /vmlinux and reboot.

hope this helps

carles