From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 7 18:48:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9B7B15150 for ; Fri, 7 May 1999 18:48:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id VAA20064; Fri, 7 May 1999 21:48:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199905080148.VAA20064@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: moused trouble In-Reply-To: from "media@mail1.nai.net" at "May 7, 99 09:16:21 pm" To: media@mail1.nai.net Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 21:48:21 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, cjclark@home.com Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG media@mail1.nai.net wrote, > At 1:18 AM -0400 5/7/99, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > > >Is moused already running? What does your 'dmesg' output say (if > >anything) about your mouse? > > Where would I find that?? You say it's a PS/2 mouse so try, # dmesg | grep psm To see the information about mouse detection. To check if moused is already running, have a look at, # ps -ef | grep moused And it will catch a running moused process. Also, what lines, if any, mention your mouse in /etc/rc.conf. > >> No variation on moused -i seems to work either, although I'm fairly sure > >> psm0 and ps/2 would be the protocol and type it would respond. > >> > >> I haven't found any mouse button settings from stand/install. > > > >Mouse settings are under "Configure" then "Mouse." > > Yes, however, there aren't any _button_ settings there. Nope. That just picks the right driver. You'll need to tweak the driver settings on your own. The entries for this will end up in /etc/rc.conf, namely, a 'moused_flags' entry. > >> Please, what am I doing wrong?? > > > >The use of the mouse is fairly limited on the console. There is a much > >more involved mouse setup if/when you do an 'xf86config'. > > I'm trying to do that too, but in the meanwhile the Handbook says that I > can use the mouse to cut and paste without X. You can, but I've never used it much myself. I have an Intellimouse with a third button (that wheel-thing) so I have never actually had to deal with this problem. If you have a two-button mouse, I would seriously consider purchasing a three-button serial mouse; you can find them for ~$10 US easily. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message