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Date:      Sat, 10 Jul 2004 18:59:23 +0430
From:      "Lee Harr" <missive@hotmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mouse in X
Message-ID:  <BAY2-F37ddlQZuZrXKc0000ca3a@hotmail.com>

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>I have set FBSD up on an old pentium II MMX 233 MHZ machine and everything 
>works fine except for the mouse (serial). When using X the mouse behaves 
>crazy i cant get it to move in any useful way.
>
>Ive checked and checked and found: edit /etc/XF86Config and
>set Protocol to "Sysmouse" and Device to "/dev/sysmouse" but this does not 
>work- any suggestions ?
>


What exactly does the Section "InputDevice" for the mouse say?
Are you running moused?

I never had much luck using moused and using the mouse in X.
Try stopping moused and using protocol "auto".
The device would be "/dev/cuaa0"  or  "/dev/cuaa1".

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