From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Feb 12 13:32:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA27108 for bugs-outgoing; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 13:32:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA27096 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 13:32:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from hydrogen.nike.efn.org (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id NAA07957 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 13:32:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hydrogen.nike.efn.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id NAA22773; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 13:30:47 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 13:30:47 -0800 (PST) From: John-Mark Gurney Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney To: Leonard Chua cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: moused and X11R6 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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)