Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 14:41:38 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org> To: dmaddox@scsn.net Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Bug with moused and XFree86 Message-ID: <199610152141.OAA10562@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Oct 1996 17:27:38 EDT." <199610152127.RAA00691@rhiannon.scsn.net>
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> I must be missing something here... I normally use /dev/cuaa0 for >my 'mouseman' type mouse. After reading this thread, I tried using >/dev/sysmouse instead, but then I don't get any mouse events at all. >Neither moused nor X see the mouse, and 'cat < /dev/sysmouse' while >moving the mouse shows nothing. However, all of the above work just >fine with /dev/cuaa0... > > What am I doing wrong? You should be running moused on /dev/cuaa0 telling it you have a 'mouseman' mouse. You should then tell X that you have a mouse systems mouse on /dev/sysmouse. Having both moused and X using the same device is bound for trouble since you don't know which of them will get each event. >-- > > > Donald J. Maddox > (dmaddox@scsn.net) > -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================
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