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Date:      Wed, 21 Mar 2001 19:23:33 -0800
From:      Joe Kelsey <joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problem with moused or XFree86-4.03
Message-ID:  <15033.28725.996068.290412@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us>
In-Reply-To: <20010321205636.A15816@pir.net>
References:  <3AB83093.73CB14A8@webmail.bmi.net> <15033.23211.276231.469648@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us> <20010321205636.A15816@pir.net>

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Peter Radcliffe writes:
 > Joe Kelsey <joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us> probably said:
 > > 4.02 of X *broke* the mouse, so I kind of doubt that your were actually
 > > running 4.02.  Or maybe sometime in the last month the port changed?  I
 > > know that when I upgraded from 4.01 to 4.02 the mouse stuff broke
 > > completely.
 > 
 > 4.0.2 is more fussy about mice, but I'm using it perfectly well with
 > moused and ps/2 and USB mice so it isn't completely broken.
 > 
 > For moused I found I had to use;
 > 
 >     Identifier  "Mouse1"
 >     Driver      "mouse"
 >     Option "Protocol"    "Auto"
 >     Option "Device"      "/dev/mouse"

The important line there is setting Protocol to Auto.  If you try to
follow the various FAQs, they recommend(ed) using Sysmouse, which causes
X to misbehave with moused.  Just for the sake of completeness, if you
are, in fact, using moused, the correct device is /dev/sysmouse, but
/dev/mouse is really just a symlink to it.

/Joe

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