Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 13:30:47 -0800 (PST) From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@nike.efn.org> To: Leonard Chua <lenc@earth.infinetconsulting.com> Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: moused and X11R6 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970212132359.24299i-100000@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970212123722.25083A-100000@earth.infinetconsulting.com>
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On Wed, 12 Feb 1997, Leonard Chua wrote: > Hmm...But I don't have a mousesystems mouse.(microsoft/mouseman is mine) > I've tried to get /dev/sysmouse to work (which I assume is for > mousesystems mice), with no luck so far. > IMHO, I'd much rather configure XF86Config to use /dev/mouse directly. and > let moused go sleep then. ok.. basicly /dev/sysmouse is a service that is provided by moused to allow "sharing" of the mouse between itself and X (or other programs)... you use Mousesystem protocol with /dev/sysmouse because moused "emulates" a Mousesystem mouse on /dev/sysmouse... it basicly converts your microsoft/mouseman mouse into the Mousesystem protocol on /dev/sysmouse... does this help? basicly you configure moused properly to use /dev/mouse (or what ever the device for your mouse is)... then you configure X to use /dev/sysmouse and protcol Mousesystems... when X open /dev/sysmouse moused will convert the data coming in from your mouse to the MouseSystems protcol for use w/ X... ttyl.. John-Mark gurney_j@efn.org http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Modem/FAX: (541) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix)
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