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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!psinntp!psinntp!l5next!scotty
From: scotty@gagetalker.com (Scott Turner)
Subject: Re: Mouse Doesn't Work!!
Message-ID: <1992Oct14.055128.478@gagetalker.com>
Sender: scotty@gagetalker.com
Organization: L5 Computing
References: <1bcu8hINNhrv@maximus.cs.ubc.ca>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 05:51:28 GMT
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In article <1bcu8hINNhrv@maximus.cs.ubc.ca> b3485834@cs.ubc.ca (Reid Turner)  
writes:
|> I installed 386bsd and XFree86 on two computers and everything works 
|> except the mouse. One machive has a microsoft bus mouse attached and
|> the other has a merit serial mouse, which can emulate a microsoft or
|> a mouse systems mouse. I have tried all the different mouse drivers 
|> that are specified in the X386 man page, but nothing seems to work.
|> 
|> I am missing something really simple? 
|> 
|> b3485834@cs.ubc.ca
I have my mouse plugged into com1 but I have to open /dev/com2 to get
at it (use I have the beta patch kits installed, and yes I re-mknod'd.)

Scotty