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From: rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey)
Subject: Re: Mouse under XFree86-1.2
In-Reply-To: cobb@krazykat.engin.umich.edu's message of 19 Mar 1993 17:48:20 GMT
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Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1993 17:32:54 GMT

>>>>> In article <1od114INNd71@srvr1.engin.umich.edu>, cobb@krazykat.engin.umich.edu (Paul Cobb) writes:

Paul> 	I've finally got 386bsd 0.1 and XFree86-1.2 installed and I've
Paul> got the X coming up with xterm, but I don't get any movement out
Paul> of my mouse. I wonder if I don't have the wrong device for the
Paul> mouse. The docs say /dev/tty00 which has node numbers of 5 0
Paul> when you do an ls. Are these correct? I've tried using both a
Paul> Logitech busmouse with busmouse in the Xconfig and a z-nix
Paul> serial mouse but I'm not sure if that's supported. Any help
Paul> would be appreciated.

The major and minor numbers depend on which com driver you are using.
The easiest way to sort out problems with a non-responsive mouse is to
use kermit to connect to the mouse port and observe whether it is
generating characters.  Rich