From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 5 01:39:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA25607 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 01:39:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ot.stpn.soft.net (freebie.opentech.stpn.soft.net [204.143.126.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id BAA25594 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 01:39:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from andes (andes.opentech.stpn.soft.net [204.143.126.66]) by ot.stpn.soft.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id OAA22183; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 14:12:31 +0530 Message-ID: <34105823.C6AB59C2@opentech.stpn.soft.net> Date: Fri, 05 Sep 1997 14:06:11 -0500 From: Prashant Dongre Reply-To: pdongre@opentech.stpn.soft.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jeffn@ap-usa.com CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems with mouse X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: <340FADCD.788C@ap-usa.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jeff Nanbara wrote: > Hello, > > I finally have given up after 3 days of trying to get this box to > understand that a mouse is attached. > > Built new box with 686 P200 and attached an old functioning mouse from > an ACER (logitech 2 button) through a 9 pin plug and into serial port > (COM1) I have it defined in rc.conf (logitech /dev/mouse) ran moused > with "moused -f -p /dev/mouse -t logitech", sio0 is found in boot up and > still won't function in XFree. Tried all protocals and all that I found > in the FAQ and Handbook. I give up..... > > Thanks in advance > Jeff Please try giving Microsoft Mouse as parameter instead of logitech mouse. I have 3 button Logitech... but it works as Microsoft compatible... May be similar is true for you... Prashant,