From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 24 18:23:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E5281500E for ; Sat, 24 Jul 1999 18:23:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA10377; Sun, 25 Jul 1999 10:52:06 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA49494; Sun, 25 Jul 1999 10:52:04 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 10:52:03 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Barbara Scott Cc: kevin.weiss@mail.utexas.edu, dutch@charm.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partition sizes (was: Questions) Message-ID: <19990725105203.Z84734@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990724011251.20552.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990724011251.20552.qmail@hotmail.com>; from Barbara Scott on Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 06:12:50PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 23 July 1999 at 18:12:50 -0700, Barbara Scott wrote: > Kevin Weiss wrote: > >> what type of mouse are you selecting during xf86config? >> >> If you (physically) have a PS/2 mouse, I wouldn't necessarily select >> dev/psm0. >> >> I tried that once, and I couldn't use my Generic Brand mouse. >> Try /dev/sysmouse during your xf86config install. >> >> I hope that helps... >> >> Kevin Weiss >> kevin.weiss@mail.utexas.edu > > Greg wrote: > >> Hmm.  I don't know this mouse.  What have you done with it?  I'd >> expect that the Microsoft protocol would work. > > Dutch Collins wrote: >> Is this your mouse? If so, maybe the PnP is getting in the way. >> >> Belkin Mouse & Driver >> 3 button Combo Mouse features dynamic resolution and >> 3 microswitch buttons. For use with IBM PC and compatibles. >> Plug & play under Win 95. Designes for right & left handed >> users. Works with 9 pin serial or PS/2 mouse port. >> >> TC-200 $9.00 > > Thank you for your responses to my question about configuring the > Belkin Mouse. Yes, the mouse is the one mentioned by Dutch. I > tried modifying the /etc/XF86config file with /dev/sysmouse, > (Microsoft and Logitech protocols), without success. For /dev/sysmouse you need to be running moused. You'd be better off selecting Microsoft protocol and putting it on a serial port (/dev/ttyd0 or /dev/ttyd1), or putting it on the PS/2 port (/dev/psm0) and selecting PS/2 protocol. > For now, I'm reconciled to use my original Microsoft 2-button mouse > emulating the 3-button unless there's anything I can do "about PnP > getting in the way?" I can't understand why it can't work in exactly the same way as your Microsoft mouse. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message