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Date:      Tue, 7 Apr 1998 12:44:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Michael E. Jaskowiak" <skovian@interpath.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ps2 mouse
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980407124222.26799D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <352993B7.2802890C@interpath.com>

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On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Michael E. Jaskowiak wrote:

> Hello.  It's Michael Jaskowiak again. 

Oh no, not again!  :-)  

>  I have had tremendous success setting up a sound card on a computer at
> work, now it's time to work on one at home.  The trouble that I am
> having is with my mouse.  The mouse is a logitech mouseman ps2. 

okay.

> The rest of the system is an ASUS P2L97 motherboard, Pentium 2 300 chip,
> 64 Megs of RAM, 2.1 Gig Maxtor, US Robotics 57.6k Sportster, a
> soundBlaster AWE 64 sound card, and Canopus Total3D and Pure3D video
> cards (the system also runs Windows 95 for gaming).  What happens is
> that when I try to use the XF86Setup command, if I move the mouse ever
> so slightly, the cursor moves to the upper left corner and stays there. 

Hm, it's not connecting properly.  Are you using the PS/2 protocol?

> It might move about one fifth the distance across the top or down the
> monitor screen.  I have tried the xf86setup command also with no better
> luck.  I have also recompiled the kernel taking the disable from the
> psm0 line and changed the mouse from /dev/cuaa0 to /dev/psm0 in
> /etc/rc.conf.

So are you using moused?  If you have that enabled make sure you point
XFree86 as device /dev/sysmouse and mouse type "MouseSystems".

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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