From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 2 04:24:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA04084 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 04:24:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA04078 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 04:24:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nadav@barcode.co.il) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA24075; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 14:10:47 +0200 (IST) (envelope-from nadav@barcode.co.il) X-Authentication-Warning: gatekeeper.barcode.co.il: smap set sender to using -f Received: from localhost.barcode.co.il(127.0.0.1) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il via smap (V2.0) id xma024073; Mon, 2 Mar 98 14:10:31 +0200 Message-ID: <34FAA4DA.2F63@barcode.co.il> Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 14:23:54 +0200 From: Nadav Eiron X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.6 sun4u) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Myron CC: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" Subject: Re: using the mouse References: <34FA3FEF.43839721@hsonline.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Scott Myron wrote: > > hi. is there any way to use my mouse in freebsd? I mean, without loading > xwindows? linux has a thing called "GPM" I was wondering if I could use > that, or if they had something for FreeBSD. thanks. > There is text-mode support for mice in the form of moused. It must be properly configured in the file /etc/rc.conf. See the man pages for moused and vidcontrol, as well as the comments in /etc/rc.conf for details. Nadav To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message