From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jun 9 1:30:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from deborah.paradise.net.nz (deborah.paradise.net.nz [203.96.152.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A4D037B409 for ; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 01:29:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from saturn (203-79-102-173.tnt14.paradise.net.nz [203.79.102.173]) by deborah.paradise.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB1AED193B; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 20:29:47 +1200 (NZST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: James Pole Organization: None To: Gary D Kline Subject: Re: can we use a mouse|pointer list? Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 20:29:51 +1200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] References: <200206082341.g58NfW012056@tao.thought.org> <20020609051845.GA89134@dub.net> <20020609071509.GA15248@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20020609071509.GA15248@tao.thought.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200206092029.51771.james.pole@paradise.net.nz> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday 09 June 2002 19:15, Gary D Kline wrote: > On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 10:18:45PM -0700, Bill Swingle wrote: > > It would probably be more appropriate for you to write up some docs o= n > > what you had to do and submit them for inclusion in the handbook. > > =09So far, my theory is that, using the PS/2 port that is > =09becoming standard: > > =09Protocol: "Auto" > =09Device: "/dev/sysmouse" > > =09in /etc/XF86Config, and the moused line > > =09moused -p /dev/psm0 -t auto > > =09will work for nearly every mouse, PS/2 or serial. --This > =09is for X4.2*. I'm not certain about this and need more > =09input. The serial side of configuration is more open-ended. > > =09Seems to me that if a enough people on this list would cut-and- > =09paste their XF86Config mouse Sections and the moused line from > =09ps ax that we would have enough for some kind of config list. > =09And I'd have a starting point for the handbook docs. > > =09gary 99% of the time the "Auto" protocal works (at least if you connect the mo= use=20 directly and your mouse uses a sane protocal). My feeling is that people=20 should be encouraged to use "Auto" first, and any other protocals as a la= st=20 resort as "Auto" requires less fiddling around with the protocal settings= --=20 and less questions to the -questions and -stable mailing lists. Decent mouses that use some of the more common protocals (such as the sta= ndard=20 PS/2 and USB protocals that seems to be common these days, especially amo= ngst=20 M$ mouses) are quite cheap these days -- people, IMHO, have no exuse for=20 replacing old and awful mouses. - James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message