Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 20:07:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Pierre Van Leeuwen <pvl@oskar.nanoteq.co.za> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: mouse in XFree86 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970409200551.4997D-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199704091036.MAA16002@oskar.nanoteq.co.za>
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On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Pierre Van Leeuwen wrote: > hi > > I am running 2.2.1R and I am trying to get my mouse working in X. > I've done this in a couple of older releases as well as in Linux > and its always been a trivial exercise, but now just cannot get > it to work. > > I have I three-buttin Genius mouse (without a protocol selection > switch) on cuaa0. Using : > > moused -t microsoft - p /dev/cuaa0 > vidcontrol -m on Is it really a Microsoft (2 button) emulator? > I can get it working perfectly on the console, but with the same > settings, there is no response in X. I've tried various other > settings, as well as another mouse with a protocol selection > switch to no avail. I've also used XF86Setup as well as > xf86config. Disabling moused doesn't help, although starting > the Xserver does disable moused in some way. Edit /etc/XF86Config and reset the mouse Protocol to 'Mouse Systems' and the device to '/dev/sysmouse'. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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