From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 12 07:43:46 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A038106566C for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 07:43:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Received: from blue.qeng-ho.org (blue.qeng-ho.org [217.155.128.241]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9EE28FC0A for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 07:43:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o9C7hhev084365; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 08:43:43 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Message-ID: <4CB411AF.5050109@qeng-ho.org> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 08:43:43 +0100 From: Arthur Chance User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.12) Gecko/20101007 Thunderbird/3.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Polytropon References: <20101011032642.GA3354@thought.org> <20101011164152.GA4652@thought.org> <20101011193153.758efde5.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20101011193153.758efde5.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: mouse problems.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 07:43:46 -0000 On 10/11/10 18:31, Polytropon wrote: [snip] > The psm device can be configured per /etc/rc.conf using moused. > While USB mice get configured by the USB subsystem automatically, > PS/2 and serial mice do not. > > Here's an example entry: > > moused_enable="YES" > moused_port="/dev/psm0" > moused_flags="-z 4" > moused_type="auto" I'm not sure that bit about PS/2 mice not being configured automatically is true. I run 8.1-RELEASE-p1 on amd64 with a PS/2 mouse and my /etc/rc.conf contains moused_enable="NO" moused_nondefault_enable="NO" moused_type="NO" and X has no problem seeing the mouse. OK, I don't have a mouse in console mode, but that's a personal foible of mine. (Well, ASR33s didn't have mice did they? :-) -- "Although the wombat is real and the dragon is not, few know what a wombat looks like, but everyone knows what a dragon looks like." -- Avram Davidson, _Adventures in Unhistory_