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Tiny Core Base => TCB Q&A Forum => Topic started by: beerstein on July 23, 2009, 09:34:36 AM

Title: how to connect a serial mouse to TC
Post by: beerstein on July 23, 2009, 09:34:36 AM

Hi:
Today I discovered that in an old machine  my serial mouse did not work. Cursor frozen. Right after boot.
I still have old PCs with a serial mouse hooked to the RS 232 port. Is there a way to make an old
serial mouse working?

1) temporarily ?
2) permanently?

I think it has something to do with the Xorg

Thank you for your help

Winfred

Title: Re: how to connect a serial mouse to TC
Post by: roberts on July 23, 2009, 12:09:44 PM

If you boot Tiny Core with the xsetup option, then you will have presented a Mouse setup screen to choose options for serial mouse. Once a backup/restore is established then this setting will presist.

The mouse type is actually an option to the tinyX server in Tiny Core and can be seen in the file /home/tc/.xsession