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From: yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp. (Kazutaka YOKOTA)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ps/2 mouse trouble
Date: 9 Apr 1997 08:11:04 GMT
Organization: Utsunomiya University, Utsunomiya, Japan
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jomor@bitstream.net wrote:

jomor>>I recently installed 2.2.1 and I have /dev/psm0 enabled, it is
jomor>>recognized on boot, and I have it enabled in the "moused" section of
jomor>>/etc/sysconfig. Moving the mouse will kill the screensaver so I know
jomor>>something is working, but I can't get any movement in the XFree
jomor>>graphical config utility no matter which protocol I select and apply.

To use `moused' and X together, you should tell X that the protocol is
"MouseSystems" and the port is "/dev/sysmouse", REGARDLESS of actual
mouse type. The `moused' abstracts the protocol and the port in that
way for X.

jomor>>K5-100. The mouse works fine under DOS, Win95, and NT 4.0.

And it should under FreeBSD too :-)

Kazu