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From: "Donald J. Maddox" <root@rhiannon.scsn.net>
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Subject: Re: Bug with moused and XFree86
In-Reply-To: <199610152141.OAA10562@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at "Oct 15, 96 02:41:38 pm"
To: gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org (Justin T. Gibbs)
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 17:53:06 -0400 (EDT)
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> >    I must be missing something here...  I normally use /dev/cuaa0 for
> >my 'mouseman' type mouse.  After reading this thread, I tried using
> >/dev/sysmouse instead, but then I don't get any mouse events at all.
> >Neither moused nor X see the mouse, and 'cat < /dev/sysmouse' while
> >moving the mouse shows nothing.  However, all of the above work just
> >fine with /dev/cuaa0...
> >
> >    What am I doing wrong?
> 
> You should be running moused on /dev/cuaa0 telling it you have a 
> 'mouseman' mouse.  You should then tell X that you have a mouse systems
> mouse on /dev/sysmouse.  Having both moused and X using the same
> device is bound for trouble since you don't know which of them will
> get each event.
> 

    Okay, now I see! :-)  Thanks for the help...  I have been avoiding
using moused at all, since it was clearly fighting with X over the
pointer.  Now I'll finally be able to use both!


> --
> Justin T. Gibbs
> ===========================================
>   FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations
> ===========================================
> 


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                                            Donald J. Maddox
                                            (dmaddox@scsn.net)