Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 09:14:33 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: an "easy mouse question" 4U but "alusive" 2Me Message-ID: <20030218091433.GB16438@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <20030218044401.M14462@spinn.net> References: <20030218044401.M14462@spinn.net>
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On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 09:44:01PM -0700, techie wrote:
> Dear FreeBSD moderators,
>
> First, awesome O/S people! I thank all of you wholeheartedly. The question
> is "that" little mouse program or daemonlet that allows you
> to "block", "cut and paste" from the command line/console TO X-window <or>
> Gnome session windows is causing my generic style, p/s 2 mouse not to work
> properly when I start up X.
>
> I was flying thru your sysinstall program in the wee hours of the morning
> loading FreeBSD up, and I don't even remember the "name" of this application
> or daemonlet that I said "yes" to at a dialogue window. So, who's the
> program and where does he live? I'd like to turn it off. It is starting up
> in one of your run-levels somewhere.
>
> **whatever it is, it creates a ghostlike "mouse cursor" to show up even when
> you are working in command line/console mode.
You're seeing the effect of moused(8). It's normal behaviour. If you
don't want mouse functionality on the console (ie. outside of X
Windows), delete the
moused_enable="YES"
line from /etc/rc.conf, tweak the mouse configuration in
/etc/X11/XF86Config and reboot. Look at the rc.conf(5) man page for
more details.
Generally however, people on this list have reported that the easiest
way of configuring a mouse under X Windows is to enable moused, and
then have something like this in XF86Config:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSection
Optionally there may be various extra flags to moused(8) and
modifications to XF86Config in order to enable rollers and extra
buttons on the mouse.
As far as I know, it's not possible to cut from a console and then
paste into X or vice versa. Console to console or X to X is what
works.
Oh, (being excessively pedantic here) FreeBSD and the *BSD's in
general don't use the concept of 'runlevels'. That's a SysV thing
as seen in Solaris, Linux or IRIX for example.
> ** more remotely, I noticed your device probe calling my generic PS 2 mouse
> a "glidepoint" on the second psm0:line?? it reads as follows:
>
>
> psm0: <p/s 2 MOuse> irq 12 on atkbdc0 (thats right)
> psm0: model Glidepoint mouse, device ID 0 (what in tarnation is that??)
This is the psm mouse driver reporting what capabilities the mouse
has: it seems to think you've got one of those touchpad devices you
often get in portables, rather than a real mouse. Probably all it
really means is that your mouse has more than the basic two or three
buttons. If you can see a mouse sprite that tracks around the screen
in response to you moving the mouse and if the various buttons on the
mouse behave reasonably, then don't worry about it.
Cheers,
Matthew
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