Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 15:47:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: flygt@sr.se Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mouse problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980518154654.9951L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980518161025.48451@sr.se>
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On Mon, 18 May 1998, Gunnar Flygt wrote: > I'm having a problem on one of my FreeBSD machines. This machine has got a > Logitech Trackball mouse connected to cuaa0. In the configuring for the mouse > in XF86Config, the mouse is pointed to /dev/mouse that is linked to > /dev/cuaa0. If I use (in rc.conf) moused, I can see a mouse pointer at start > of FreeBSD, that is: the pointer gets visible when moving the mouse for the > first time. The pointer immediately freezes and is unusable after that. > Running moused is the only way of getting any contact with the mouse in X!! > But the contact I get is very unstable. The mouse can be moved occasionally, > but with no precision at all. Most of the time nothing happens when moving the > mouse. So do you want to use moused or not? If you are using moused, tell X that your mouse is of protocol "MouseSystems" and the device is /dev/sysmouse. If you aren't running moused then your mouse is of protocol "Logitech" and your mouse port is /dev/cuaa0. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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