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From: Pat_Barron@transarc.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: PS/2 mouse driver for 386bsd?
Date: Thu,  8 Apr 1993 18:22:02 -0400
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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I am looking for a driver to talk to a mouse on a PS/2-compatible mouse
port (the kind that talks to the system via the keyboard controller).
I want to make it look like a serial mouse (i.e., /dev/mouse looks
like a tty-ish device, and passes back the bytes that a serial mouse
would pass back), since I want to use it with XFree86 which apparently
only knows about serial Logitech and Mouse Systems mice.  Has anyone
done this?  If not, I'll probably end up doing it myself....

--Pat.