Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 08:48:07 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: mouse problems.... Message-ID: <20101012154807.GA3790@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <4CB411AF.5050109@qeng-ho.org> References: <20101011032642.GA3354@thought.org> <20101011164152.GA4652@thought.org> <20101011193153.758efde5.freebsd@edvax.de> <4CB411AF.5050109@qeng-ho.org>
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On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 08:43:43AM +0100, Arthur Chance wrote: > On 10/11/10 18:31, Polytropon wrote: > [snip] > >The psm device can be configured per /etc/rc.conf using moused. > >While USB mice get configured by the USB subsystem automatically, > >PS/2 and serial mice do not. > > > >Here's an example entry: > > > > moused_enable="YES" > > moused_port="/dev/psm0" > > moused_flags="-z 4" > > moused_type="auto" > > I'm not sure that bit about PS/2 mice not being configured > automatically is true. I run 8.1-RELEASE-p1 on amd64 with a PS/2 > mouse and my /etc/rc.conf contains > > moused_enable="NO" > moused_nondefault_enable="NO" > moused_type="NO" > > and X has no problem seeing the mouse. OK, I don't have a mouse in > console mode, but that's a personal foible of mine. (Well, ASR33s > didn't have mice did they? :-) I didn't realize how nice a GUI can be until I discovered the xterm! At any rate, my mouse+keyboard are both USB. Still not working with X.... > > -- > "Although the wombat is real and the dragon is not, few know what a > wombat looks like, but everyone knows what a dragon looks like." > > -- Avram Davidson, _Adventures in Unhistory_ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.90a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org
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