From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Feb 12 16:18:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA05302 for bugs-outgoing; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 16:18:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from icicle.winternet.com (adm@icicle.winternet.com [198.174.169.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA05294 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 16:18:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from adm@localhost) by icicle.winternet.com (8.7.5/8.7.5) id SAA21843; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 18:17:51 -0600 (CST) Posted-Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 18:17:51 -0600 (CST) Received: from chaos.ecpnet.com(204.246.64.13) by icicle.winternet.com via smap (V2.0beta) id xma021796; Wed, 12 Feb 97 18:17:19 -0600 Received: from bullfrog.ecpnet.com (bullfrog.ecpnet.com [204.246.64.212]) by chaos.ecpnet.com (8.8.5/8.8.3) with SMTP id SAA01952; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 18:20:24 -0600 (CST) Received: by bullfrog.ecpnet.com with Microsoft Mail id <01BC1911.1A1A4940@bullfrog.ecpnet.com>; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 18:18:10 -0600 Message-ID: <01BC1911.1A1A4940@bullfrog.ecpnet.com> From: Justen Stepka To: "'John-Mark Gurney'" , Leonard Chua Cc: "freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org" Subject: RE: moused and X11R6 Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 18:18:07 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by freefall.freebsd.org id QAA05295 Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk This is a nice idea but the problem is that it doesn't work! :( When I use this setup the mouse will thrust towards the upper left of the screen and move along the top when I try and control the mouse. Justen Stepka raistlin@ecpnet.com -----Original Message----- From: John-Mark Gurney [SMTP:jmg@nike.efn.org] Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 1997 3:31 PM To: Leonard Chua Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: moused and X11R6 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)