300MHz PowerBook G3, ATI Rage LT Pro (Mach64) OldWorld

[Daniel R. Broemmelsiek]

I did a cdrom install of 8.2 choosing the 2.4 kernel.  The mouse(trackpad) is 
there for the graphical installation, however, when I boot the new system, 
gpm says "oops, can't open mouse /dev/adbmouse does not exist" which is very 
confusing to me, since it's there (ls -l /dev/adbmouse lists the device 
nicely) and actually matches the devices.txt file (major & minor numbers) in 
the kernel documentation.  In the XFree86.0.log file, there is another 
message about not finding /dev/adbmouse, in this case, an xopenserial message 
which kills the X server in an unfriendly black screen sort of way.  I've 
checked the boot log, and there it is, adb has been scanned with the trackpad 
found at address 3 handler 4, which I checked with mousemode.

So, the kernel knows about the trackpad, but it doesn't seem to be telling 
anybody about it.  Anybody seen this problem before?  There's still a few 
things I can look at, but the list is getting short and not too many clues 
have arisen.

Dan