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From: jwc@newshost.li.net (John Carbone)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: XF86311 problems - Request fr Comment!
Date: 24 Aug 1995 13:52:20 GMT
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I experienced the same problem using a Microsoft serial mouse
on ttyd0. 

Jaroslaw Bazydlo (jbazyd@ire.pw.edu.pl) wrote:
: I noticed a strange behaving of FreeBSD 950726-SNAP and XWindows. Maybe it
: is a problem of my hardware but would you mind answering the following
: questions.

: First the hardware description:

: OPTi 486dx4 100Mhz / 16 Megs of RAM and EIDE disk
: and 2xRS232 (important information) and BusMouse Card.

: First I cannot make BusMouse work under XWindows. It's not seen as a serial
: device such as /dev/cuaa[0123]. So i had to take normal mouse and connect it
: to serial port /dev/cuua0.

: /etc/XF86Config:

: Section "Pointer"
:     Protocol    "MouseSystems"
:     Device      "/dev/cuaa0"
: EndSection

: In most cases it works fine, but the are the aplications that could not
: recognize that i push the button in order to choose some option from pop-up
: menu. These are the xapps: Xarchie, Xftp, Zircon and many others. Netscape
: works just fine.

: Regards and please send me an answer as soon as yuo can.

: Jaras