From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 29 06:22:19 1994 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id GAA22246 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Dec 1994 06:22:19 -0800 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.223.46]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA22239 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 1994 06:22:18 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id GAA04603; Thu, 29 Dec 1994 06:21:43 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: time.cdrom.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: dusio cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Microsoft Bus Mouse under FreeBSD 2.0 In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 29 Dec 94 09:14:13 EST." <9412291414.AA21522@ws062> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 29 Dec 1994 06:21:43 -0800 Message-ID: <4602.788710903@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > UN*X on a PC. For those of us who work on UNIX every day, > this is a godsend at home. Thank you. Always nice to hear that, thank you! > I could use some help setting up XF86 on my system. > My Microsoft Bus mouse does not move the cursor under X. > I set the protocol to "BusMouse" in the XF86Config file, > and set the device to "/dev/tty00". No, /dev/tty00 is actually the first serial port. You're correct in assuming that you need to recompile your kernel with the mse device. See /sys/i386/conf/LINT for an option line. See also section 6.0 in the latest copy of the FreeBSD FAQ (ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src/share/FAQ/FreeBSD.FAQ) as I have, coincidently, just added an entry on kernel configuration. > Is this a simple case of h/w conflict that doesn't show > up under dos/windows? No, it's just that Microsoft Windows has a bus mouse driver and FreeBSD doesn't have one compiled in yet. It's not often used enough to be a default, I guess! Jordan