From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 26 14:40:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA21580 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 26 Jul 1997 14:40:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from isf.kiev.ua (nobody@relay1.kar.net [195.5.17.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA21575 for ; Sat, 26 Jul 1997 14:40:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from olinet.isf.kiev.ua by isf.kiev.ua with ESMTP id AAA15275; (8.8.3/2.b1) Sun, 27 Jul 1997 00:36:20 +0300 (EET DST) Received: from kushnir.kiev.ua by olinet.isf.kiev.ua with SMTP id AAA18077; (8.8.3/vak/1.9) Sun, 27 Jul 1997 00:32:11 +0300 (EET DST) Message-ID: <33DA6D60.41C67EA6@olinet.isf.kiev.ua> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 21:34:24 +0000 From: Vladimir Kushnir X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joshua Fielden CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: moused problems... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Joshua Fielden wrote: > > .... I've searched the FAQ, etc up and down, and didn't find anythign that > quite fit my problem: > > upon boot-up, moused runs from rc.conf, and gives no errors. ps -ax > confirms the daemon is running with the flags I wish. But I don't get a > cursor at all. The man page does not say anything special needs to be done > once the daemon is running, so I assume there's something I'm missing. > the appropriate snippet from rc.conf: > > moused_type="mousesystems" # I have a ms three-button mouse, this > # setting works for XF86. > moused_port="/dev/cuaa0" # again, X is happy with this, no > # conflicts with another port/dev > moused_flags="-s" # tried this and -S 9600 > > Is there something more that needs to be done, or do I have a problem > that's a little more sinister? > > JF You've got to turn it on: vidcontrol -m on Hope this helps, Vladimir