Andre Haupt wrote:

On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 03:06:27PM +0100, Roel Kluin wrote:

does cat /dev/input/mice work (i.e. shows weird characters)?

regards,

Andre

Actually it did. Note that the problem is not here now, but back then I
did a cat /dev/mouse (which is a symlink to /dev/input/mice) and it did
echo strange characters.

Roel