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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!pipex!uknet!comlab.ox.ac.uk!oxuniv!long From: long@vax.oxford.ac.uk (NEIL J LONG) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: support for Mice?? Message-ID: <1994May27.164307.23257@oxvaxd> Date: 27 May 94 16:43:07 GMT References: <1994May23.225451.23101@oxvaxd> Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620 Lines: 27 In article <1994May23.225451.23101@oxvaxd>, long@vax.oxford.ac.uk (NEIL J LONG) writes: > hello > Just a quick question - I scanned the faq and I understand that FreeBSD only > supports Logitech and ATI mice - just curious as to why there is no support for > the ubiquitous Microsoft Mouse and its kind. > I have seen references to the PS/2 type mouse driver package - is there > something similar for the little serial rodent and would it make it possible to > use them (in 3 button emulator mode) for XFree86? > > Thanks > Neil I still cannot get startx to find the mouse - it never seems to find a valid device file. I tried running MAKEDV with (mouse, com1, etc) options and it does not seem to create anything valid. Could someone please tell me exactly what I need to do create the mouse and com port devices. Microsoft mouse on (PC) com1: Irritating as startx is happy with all the twiddly video modes stuff. Thanks Neil