Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 17:53:06 -0400 (EDT) From: "Donald J. Maddox" <root@rhiannon.scsn.net> To: gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org (Justin T. Gibbs) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Bug with moused and XFree86 Message-ID: <199610152153.RAA00793@rhiannon.scsn.net> In-Reply-To: <199610152141.OAA10562@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at "Oct 15, 96 02:41:38 pm"
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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.
>
Okay, now I see! :-) Thanks for the help... I have been avoiding
using moused at all, since it was clearly fighting with X over the
pointer. Now I'll finally be able to use both!
> --
> Justin T. Gibbs
> ===========================================
> FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations
> ===========================================
>
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Donald J. Maddox
(dmaddox@scsn.net)
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