09-18-2001
For Redhat, use the mouseconfig command. Make sure you set it up correctly - you may need to examine your mouse cables, make sure you have a PS/2 or serial mouse (depending on which you select). In the case that you're still having trouble, just set it up as a generic 2-button or 3-button mouse.
If NONE of that works, search the Redhat site for more specific information; there are a few (albeit rare) problems in 7.1 dealing with mice.
Please let us know how it goes.
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MOUSE(4) Linux Programmer's Manual MOUSE(4)
NAME
mouse - serial mouse interface
CONFIGURATION
Serial mice are connected to a serial RS232/V24 dialout line, see ttyS(4) for a description.
DESCRIPTION
Introduction
The pinout of the usual 9 pin plug as used for serial mice is:
pin name used for
2 RX Data
3 TX -12 V, Imax = 10 mA
4 DTR +12 V, Imax = 10 mA
7 RTS +12 V, Imax = 10 mA
5 GND Ground
This is the specification, in fact 9 V suffices with most mice.
The mouse driver can recognize a mouse by dropping RTS to low and raising it again. About 14 ms later the mouse will send 0x4D ('M') on
the data line. After a further 63 ms, a Microsoft-compatible 3-button mouse will send 0x33 ('3').
The relative mouse movement is sent as dx (positive means right) and dy (positive means down). Various mice can operate at different
speeds. To select speeds, cycle through the speeds 9600, 4800, 2400 and 1200 bit/s, each time writing the two characters from the table
below and waiting 0.1 seconds. The following table shows available speeds and the strings that select them:
bit/s string
9600 *q
4800 *p
2400 *o
1200 *n
The first byte of a data packet can be used to synchronization purposes.
Microsoft protocol
The Microsoft protocol uses 1 start bit, 7 data bits, no parity and one stop bit at the speed of 1200 bits/sec. Data is sent to RxD in
3-byte packets. The dx and dy movements are sent as two's-complement, lb (rb) are set when the left (right) button is pressed:
byte d6 d5 d4 d3 d2 d1 d0
1 1 lb rb dy7 dy6 dx7 dx6
2 0 dx5 dx4 dx3 dx2 dx1 dx0
3 0 dy5 dy4 dy3 dy2 dy1 dy0
3-button Microsoft protocol
Original Microsoft mice only have two buttons. However, there are some three button mice which also use the Microsoft protocol. Pressing
or releasing the middle button is reported by sending a packet with zero movement and no buttons pressed. (Thus, unlike for the other two
buttons, the status of the middle button is not reported in each packet.)
Logitech protocol
Logitech serial 3-button mice use a different extension of the Microsoft protocol: when the middle button is up, the above 3-byte packet is
sent. When the middle button is down a 4-byte packet is sent, where the 4th byte has value 0x20 (or at least has the 0x20 bit set). In
particular, a press of the middle button is reported as 0,0,0,0x20 when no other buttons are down.
Mousesystems protocol
The Mousesystems protocol uses 1 start bit, 8 data bits, no parity and two stop bits at the speed of 1200 bits/sec. Data is sent to RxD in
5-byte packets. dx is sent as the sum of the two two's-complement values, dy is send as negated sum of the two two's-complement values.
lb (mb, rb) are cleared when the left (middle, right) button is pressed:
byte d7 d6 d5 d4 d3 d2 d1 d0
1 1 0 0 0 0 lb mb rb
2 0 dxa6 dxa5 dxa4 dxa3 dxa2 dxa1 dxa0
3 0 dya6 dya5 dya4 dya3 dya2 dya1 dya0
4 0 dxb6 dxb5 dxb4 dxb3 dxb2 dxb1 dxb0
5 0 dyb6 dyb5 dyb4 dyb3 dyb2 dyb1 dyb0
Bytes 4 and 5 describe the change that occurred since bytes 2 and 3 were transmitted.
Sun protocol
The Sun protocol is the 3-byte version of the above 5-byte Mousesystems protocol: the last two bytes are not sent.
MM protocol
The MM protocol uses 1 start bit, 8 data bits, odd parity and one stop bit at the speed of 1200 bits/sec. Data is sent to RxD in 3-byte
packets. dx and dy are sent as single signed values, the sign bit indicating a negative value. lb (mb, rb) are set when the left (middle,
right) button is pressed:
byte d7 d6 d5 d4 d3 d2 d1 d0
1 1 0 0 dxs dys lb mb rb
2 0 dx6 dx5 dx4 dx3 dx2 dx1 dx0
3 0 dy6 dy5 dy4 dy3 dy2 dy1 dy0
FILES
/dev/mouse
A commonly used symlink pointing to a mouse device.
SEE ALSO
ttyS(4), gpm(8)
COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.53 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
Linux 1996-02-10 MOUSE(4)