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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Moused console & X
Date: 23 Feb 1997 00:12:52 GMT
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espel@llaic.univ-bpclermont.fr (Roger Espel Llima) wrote:

> >When I've installed mouse in console (sysconfig: mousetype=YES)
> >mouse cursor in X sometimes terribly jumps over screen. When
> >mousetype=NO mouse in X works properly. Could anybody help me?
> 
> It did for me too... kill moused before starting X.

Unless you correctly use /dev/sysmouse for the Xserver, of course. :)
(Btw., /dev/sysmouse always speaks MouseSystems protocol, regardless
of your real mouse.)

-- 
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. ;-)