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Date:      Wed, 21 Mar 2001 19:56:15 -0800
From:      Joe Kelsey <joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us>
To:        John Merryweather Cooper <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problem with moused or XFree86-4.03
Message-ID:  <15033.30687.471986.540170@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us>
In-Reply-To: <3AB971B3.19CAF111@webmail.bmi.net>
References:  <3AB83093.73CB14A8@webmail.bmi.net> <15033.23211.276231.469648@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us> <20010321205636.A15816@pir.net> <15033.28725.996068.290412@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us> <3AB971B3.19CAF111@webmail.bmi.net>

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John Merryweather Cooper writes:
 > Joe Kelsey wrote:
 > > Peter Radcliffe writes:
 > >  > 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.
 > Then the info in sysinstall re entries for the mouse in XF86Config should be
 > changed to reflect this.

No.  The information in sysinstall is for XFree86 version 3!  XFree86
version 4 is still not "officially" part of FreeBSD.  If anything, the
port should be changed to mention the problem.

If you don't miss using moused, and you have spare serial ports, then
more power to you.  I have very limited serial ports and I really want
moused behavior so I can use the mouse on the various console terms.  If
you never use the console, never mind.

/Joe

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