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From: "Sergei S. Laskavy" <laskavy@cs.msu.su>
To: fellow9@hotmail.com
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Subject: Re: mouse on character terminal,gpm...
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>>>>> "Jason" == Jason Smith <fellow9@hotmail.com> writes:

    >> Your friend is moused(8). Edit /etc/rc.conf to run it and use
    >> vidcontrol -m on to enable mouse operations in current virtual
    >> console.

    Jason> OK!Did that and worked fine...nice mouse pointer :) But I
    Jason> was wondering,is there a way so that X windows will still
    Jason> recognize the mouse even when moused is running?I suppose
    Jason> that I can't use mouse in X because the device is busy from
    Jason> moused or something.  What can I do?

I suggest you to read
	man moused

I was able to run moused and X simultaneously. But it is known that in
some cases you can not run them both. I do not know good workaround...

Sergei