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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: middle mouse button? Date: 1 Feb 1997 22:39:47 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5d0gnj$2u5@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5bpf6s$54n@eve.umiacs.umd.edu> <32E0BDAB.59E2B600@freebsd.org> <5c6a81$5bc@cicsun.univ-bpclermont.fr> <5cdntl$hg1@uriah.heep.sax.de> <5cts70$iqs@cicsun.univ-bpclermont.fr> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34625 espel@llaic.univ-bpclermont.fr (Roger Espel Llima) wrote: > And that, of course, would have been the right solution (if I had the > XFree sources on my PC, or anything better than a diskette/IP connection > to the net) ... but as it turned out the problem was just that I was > running moused together with XFree, ... In this case, it was a simple usage error. moused does already the mouse translation for you, and pipes it upstream into /dev/sysmouse. So you should set your XFree86 mouse device to /dev/sysmouse, and select MouseSystems protocol (since this is what moused emulates). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)