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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!izvestia.its.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!mr.net!news.mr.net!bitstream.net!not-for-mail From: "Joseph G. Moore" <jomor@bitstream.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ps/2 mouse trouble Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 01:04:12 -0500 Organization: Bitstream Underground Lines: 19 Message-ID: <334B315C.6FC5@bitstream.net> References: <334B1081.7F71@bitstream.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: port136.bitstream.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38785 Joseph G. Moore wrote: > > I recently installed 2.2.1 and I have /dev/psm0 enabled, it is > recognized on boot, and I have it enabled in the "moused" section of > /etc/sysconfig. Moving the mouse will kill the screensaver so I know > something is working, but I can't get any movement in the XFree > graphical config utility no matter which protocol I select and apply. > I'm quite new to freeBSD and I haven't yet figured out how to add the > X11R6 directory to the path... could this be it? The mouse is > manufactured by Microsoft and my motherboard is an Acer AP53 which is a > fairly typical for boards eith an Intel 430HX chipset. CPU is an AMD > K5-100. The mouse works fine under DOS, Win95, and NT 4.0. > > Thanks in advance ...jgm Well... I never did get the sucker to work in the config utility, but just for the heck of it I typed "startx", and the damned thing worked! Go figure! It only works for user "root" though, I guess the path that I edited only applies to that.