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To: David Nugent <davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>
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Subject: Re: moused and X11R6 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 08 Feb 1997 16:55:55 +1100."
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Date: Sat, 08 Feb 1997 15:34:08 +0900
From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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>It works like this:
>
>moused handles the *real* mouse device, and "converts" these
>into mousesystems events, then emulates a "real" mouse to
>everything that uses it. In the meatime, It can affect the
>console device as well if you have mouse actions on via
>vidcontrol.
>
>e.g (for a serial mouse):
>
>/dev/cuaa0 -> moused
>	      |
>	      /dev/mouse
>		|
>		+-- vidcontrol
>		|
>		+-- xfree

Actually, it's `/dev/sysmouse' rather than `/dev/mouse', unless you
have made a symbolic link from `/dev/mouse' to `/dev/sysmouse'...

I am currently running moused with a 3-button serial mouse.  My
XF86Config has the following lines in the Section "Pointer":

Device   "/dev/sysmouse"
Protocol "MouseSystems"

Kazu