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sindi keesan wrote:
> 
> No stripe or penguin.  

They are down below the bottom of the screen.  That is
because you have configured X to be a window (640x480?)
on a larger (virtual) screen.

> It appears to be set to virtual resolution 800, mode 640.

You must have done this yourself.  The XF86Config in bl2-x.tgz 
does not create a virtual screen.

> Cannot move the arrow.

Mouse is misconfigured in XF86Config.  Either the Device 
line is wrong or the Protocol line is wrong.
------------------------------
Section "Pointer"
   Protocol        "Microsoft"
   Device          "/dev/mouse"
   BaudRate        1200
   Emulate3Buttons
EndSection
-------------------------------

> I detest computer mouses, Opera hopefully does not need one
> and you said icewm did not either.

Who?  Me?

> The O'Reilly book only tells me  '/dev/mouse is usually
> a link to the appropriate serial port (such as /dev/ttyS0) 
> for serial mice....'

That is correct.  The installation script in bl2-x.tgz does
this for you.

> Where would I put such a link?

To manually link 'mouse' to ttyS0 (com1):
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ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/mouse
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Cheers,
Steven