From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 9 20:07:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA08126 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 20:07:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA08120 for ; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 20:07:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA05029; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 20:07:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 20:07:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Pierre Van Leeuwen cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: mouse in XFree86 In-Reply-To: <199704091036.MAA16002@oskar.nanoteq.co.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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