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Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 15:43:34 +0200 (CEST)
From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se>
To: Idar Tollefsen <Idar.Tollefsen@baerum.kommune.no>
Subject: RE: Mouse trouble (console and X)
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On 06-Aug-01 Idar Tollefsen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I had moused running, using /dev/mouse which
> was a symlink to /dev/sysmouse. When I started
> X with this configuration, the mouse fired off quite
> a few clicks and placed itself in the top right corner
> and then went dead.
> 

I think I had the same experience... Now my /etc/X11/XF86Config contains this:


    Identifier  "Mouse1"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option "Protocol"    "PS/2"
    Option "Device"      "/dev/psm0"

and no moused running. 

The idea is that when moused is running you should access the X-mouse via
sysmouse, but I've some trouble in the past with that so the above is what stuck
for me.

Lycka till,
Micke

När jag använde både moused och andra inställningar i X fick jag andra lustiga
fel. Jag har tröttnat på att prova - när det funkade lät jag det vara.

> I went back to the console and killed moused just
> to find that the mouse now was non-functional in X.
> 
> Back on the console again, I changed /dev/mouse
> to point to /dev/psm0 (as I have a PS/2 mouse).
> This made the mouse work correctly in X, but
> only when moused isn'r running. moused still starts
> and operates correctly even tough it now points
> to /dev/psm0 instead of /dev/sysmouse trough
> /dev/mouse.
> 
> Is there a way to make moused and X cooperate
> to share the mouse? And what exactly does 
> /dev/sysmouse do? I read somewhere that it
> was an abstraction to the actual mouse device...?
> 
> Note that I have tried both "ps/2" and "auto" as
> protocols for moused, both for /dev/psm0 and
> /dev/sysmouse.
> 
> 
> - IT
> 
> 
> 
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