MOUSE AUTODETECTION: NEED FEEDBACK FROM EVERYBODY

[Sit Heel Speak]

Thinkpad T21 with a Logitech cordless mouse plugged into the PS2 port through an adapter:

CPU0
0: 483345 XT-PIC timer
1: 8349 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
3: 31206 XT-PIC usb-uhci
5: 17775 XT-PIC eth0
8: 0 XT-PIC rtc
9: 2 XT-PIC acpi
10: 0 XT-PIC Texas Instruments PCI1450 (#2)
11: 0 XT-PIC Texas Instruments PCI1450, CS46XX
12: 152887 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
14: 108689 XT-PIC ide0
NMI: 0
ERR: 0

[lostdog]

This is what I have:

12: 1494544 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse

I have an old Dell Inspiron XPS R450 P2 450.

[BarryK]

Well, detection is getting there... see Developer News page for April 16:
http://www.puppyos.com/news.htm

[BarryK]

On the Developer News page there's announcement of a new mouse detect program, with download link,
and here is new forum thread to report on it:
http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=7475

[ducwiz]

I tried to support your work an ran puppyserialdetect, but had no success. I downloaded puppyserialdetect.gz, gunzipped it

# whoami
root
# ./puppyserialdetect
bash: ./puppyserialdetect: Permission denied

What's wrong here, or with me?

d.

[rarsa]

What's wrong here, or with me?

Or both? (just kidding)

In Linux a file must have executable permissions to execute.

To execute a script there are two options:

a) Execute it by passing it as a parameter to the shel

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sh puppyserialdetect

b) Set the execute permission. After that the script can be executed by itself

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chmod   a+x    puppyserialdetect
./puppyserialdetect

[ducwiz]

Ah, OK, something wrong with me ;o{
Have to learn al lot more ...

But:

# chmod a+x puppyserialdetect
# puppyserialdetect
bash: puppyserialdetect: command not found

sh puppyserialdetect
puppyserialdetect: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected

???

[BarryK]

Ah, OK, something wrong with me ;o{
Have to learn al lot more ...

But:

# chmod a+x puppyserialdetect
# puppyserialdetect
bash: puppyserialdetect: command not found

sh puppyserialdetect
puppyserialdetect: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected

???

Yes, unix/linux executable search path does not include the current directory,
so you have to do this:

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# ./puppyserialdetect

[ducwiz]

Well, seems that I'm still stuck wth the old DOS times ...
I promise to buy or download a bunch of LINUX documentation and study it ;-)

After I chmoded puppyserialdetect with 755 it returns for 3 different serial mice:

# ./puppyserialdetect
Type:mouse|Port:/dev/ttyS0
# ./puppyserialdetect
Type:mouse|Port:/dev/ttyS1

My old serial modem gives:

# ./puppyserialdetect
Type:modem|Port:/dev/ttyS1|Speed:230400

Presently I use v1.08r1 with a PS/2 mouse and Xorg. Xproc tells me:

12: 211831 XT-PIC PS/2 mouse

I have 4 older PCs available here (Asus PIII-F P3-550, Asus PIIB-B P3-450, PCChips M726MRT Cel.-333, Gigabyte G586HX P1-120), and all kinds of mice. If you write me down a "mose detect test schedule", I will perform it for you.

yours d.