[ale] Mouse does not work

[ChrisF at computone.com (Chris Fowler)]

I am useing a generic PC that when I start X the mouse will not work.?? I can make the mouse work by using command "cat < /dev/mouse" and then movig the mouse.?? when I see characters, I then do "CTRL-C" and switch to X.?? Mouse works fine!?? I figured that opening the mouse may help so I tried to write code that did the following:


int
main(void)
{
?????????????? int fd;
?????????????? 
?????????????? fd = open("/dev/mouse", O_RDWR);


?????????????? if (fd == -1)
?????????????? {
?????????????? ?????????????? perror("mouse");
?????????????? ?????????????? exit(1);
?????????????? }


?????????????? close(fd);


?????????????? return 0;
}


However, this does not have the same effect as "cat < /dev/mouse"?? Does anyone know what I should do.?? gpm is not running.?? X is the only one with control of mouse.

Chris