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Subject: Serial Mouse in 2.2.2
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Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 16:51:21 -0400
From: "Christopher J. Booth" <cbooth@onyx.interactive.net>
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Hi, FreeBSDers:

I have not yet been able to get my mouse working. Serial mouse,
sio1/cuaa1/COM2, Mouse Systems (switchable to Microsoft, but set to Mouse
Systems and working as such in the same box in Linux and DOS/Win3.1--_and_ it
had worked fine as such in FreeBSD 2.1.5--no change in hardware!).

Here are my settings:

   /etc/rc.conf

      mousedtype="mousesystems"
      mousedport="/dev/cuaa1"
      mousedflags=""


   /etc/XF86Config

      Section "Pointer"
         Protocol        "MouseSystems"
         Device          "/dev/sysmouse"


I have also tried switching the mouse to Microsoft and changing the
/etc/rc.conf and /etc/XF86Config files accordingly, to no advantage. My
cursor does not move, either in ttyv0-ttyv2 after "vidcontrol -m on" or in
X. I have also tried getting rid of moused by setting /etc/rc.conf as

      mousedtype="NO"
      mousedport=""
      mousedflags=""

and /etc/XF86Config as

      Section Pointer
         Protocol        "MouseSystems"
         Device          "/dev/cuaa1"

also to no avail, getting no cursor movement in X at all. [Except for this
glitch, so far I am ecstatic about FreeBSD 2.2.2. It installed like a
charm, and my ppp is working now--I had not been able to get it working
right in 2.1.5. Fetchmail & sendmail are running well, too!! Wheee!!! But I 
would very much like to get my mouse working so that I can go on to the next 
things to wrastle with.]

There must be another file(s) somewhere that must be modified, but I can't
find it mentioned anywhere. Can anyone help me on this one? I have looked in 
man pages, FAQ, and mail and documentation archives at www.freebsd.org for 
this, and have found nothing.

Thanks, all,

Chris Booth
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Chris Booth
cbooth@onyx.interactive.net