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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
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> I have a Microsoft Bus Mouse connected to my video card sitting in COM1
> How do I get this device to work with FreeBSD.
> What commands do I use and what devices files do I set?

Bus mice are not serial mice.

You do *not* have a bus mouse on com1.

Probably you need to use /dev/psm0 insead of com1 and change your
mouse protocol in XF86Config (like it says in the XFree86 release notes).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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