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Subject: Re: Two programs trying to handle the mouse?
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"fbsd_user" <fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com> writes:

> Mouse is started from /etc/rc.conf
>
> Sounds like you did not config your mouse during the sysinstall
> when you installed FBSD from CD.

There are moused lines in /etc/rc.conf, and the mouse is working well.

The question I wanted to ask is: why does the mouse start working
BEFORE moused is started?

Hypothesis after reading "man syscons": The syscons driver displays
the mouse pointer.  moused is only responsible for handling
copy-and-paste.  That would explain why I see the mouse pointer (and
can move it) before moused is started.

kai@slowfox$ grep mouse /etc/rc.conf 
moused_enable="YES"
moused_flags="-z 4"

Kai