From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 1 11:44:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA01285 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 11:44:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from azeri.com (run.azeri.com [208.210.122.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA01251 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 11:44:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mirlok@twin.ab.az) Received: from twin.ab.az ([208.210.122.71]) by azeri.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id XAA08814; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 23:46:01 +0500 (BSD) Received: from [194.106.192.194] by twin.ab.az (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA11093; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 23:42:18 -0400 Message-Id: <35EC4E73.1A7AFC1E@twin.ab.az> Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 23:43:48 +0400 From: Mirlok X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: SKG Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mouse problems....... References: <3.0.3.32.19980901092417.0069a038@asis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! I think everybody who installs FreeBSD for the first time have this problem. you shoul create a link between your port and your mouse. So that if your mouse is connected to COM1 then ln -sf /dev/cuaa0 /dev/mouse COM2 ln -sf /dev/cuaa0 /dev/mouse ... and so on PS/2 ln -sf /dev/psm0 /dev/mouse Good luck SKG wrote: > Hi..........I'm a total newbie to freeBSD - installation seems to work > fine, but when I come to the mouse daemon, none of the configurations give > a moving pointer (only a couple even give a pointer at all). The system is > a P2 - 400 meg with the Intel I740 vid card & the MS intellimouse. > I know there's limited resolution avaliable with this vid card.....do the > problems include the mouse? Thank you kindly................ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message