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Subject: Re: Mouse..
To: khetan@iafrica.com (Khetan Gajjar)
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 15:07:35 +0200 (MET DST)
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In reply to Khetan Gajjar who wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 9 Aug 1996 sos@FreeBSD.org wrote:
> 
> >Yes, run the moused deamon, and switch the cursor on/off with 
> >vidcontrol..
> 
> Tried it, and it didn't work. Got -current current to last week Friday.
> I've got a ps/2 mouse.
> 
> I tried moused -p /dev/mouse -t ps/2 and also moused -p /dev/psm0 -t ps/2
> and it accepted both, but a ps -auxwww | grep moused reveals nothing.
> 
> vidcontrol -m on shows it, but moving the mouse around does nothing. What
> am I doing wrong ?

Um, there is something special on the ps/2 mouse, you have to use
the minor 0 device (the /dev/psm0 is the minor 1 device).


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