Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 18:56:02 -0400 From: rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper) Cc: wrendesign@mediaone.net Subject: Re: ## MOUSE NOT Working ## Message-ID: <slrn6n6c0h.oml.rhh@elmer.ct.picker.com> References: <35709001.99E1ECA3@mediaone.net>
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wren <wrendesign@mediaone.net> wrote:
|I have rid my self and computer from MS/Windows OS and have become
|obsessed with UNIX. More precisely FreeBSD. I have installed BSD without
|a hitch. It runs fine. I have also installed X11R6/ tyhe latest edition
|for running x windows.
Sounds good. :-)
...
|But the mouse does not move at all/. It is curse from Microsoft. A n
|intellimouse that will not run on Unix...
|
|When BSD boots it gives a "intellimouse found on device 3,.."
|It does not conflict at all.
...
>From this and your other description, sounds like you have a PS/2
Intellimouse (as opposed to a serial one). I don't own one of these, but
you might try this:
1) Get out of X and go to the console,
2) Kill any running 'moused' process
3) Run "moused -p /dev/psm0 -t ps/2" to start it.
4) Run "vidcontrol -m on" and move your mouse around and click the buttons.
See if you get the console cut'n'paste pointer.
5) If so, configure /etc/rc.conf for permanent moused setup:
moused_type="ps/2" # See man page for rc.conf(5) ...
moused_port="/dev/psm0" # Set to your mouse port ...
6) Then point XFree86 at the /dev/sysmouse mouse pass-through device by
editing /etc/XF86Config:
Section "Pointer"
Protocol "MouseSystems"
Device "/dev/sysmouse"
...
You also may be able to just point XFree86 at your PS/2 Intellimouse
directly (I don't know if XFree86 has PS/2 Intellimouse support though).
In other words, kill moused, flip this in your /etc/XF86Config:
Section "Pointer"
Protocol "PS/2"
Device "/dev/psm0"
...
startx, and see if it works.
|Any help is greatly appreciated... If I can get this to work, I will
|never return to MS Windows..
Hope this does the trick. If not, let me know. You also may want to post
any follow-up to questions@freebsd.org. Lots of helpful folks hang out
there that'll be able to give you a hand.
--
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