Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 08:44:52 +0200 (MET DST) From: sos@FreeBSD.ORG To: davidn@blaze.net.au Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, jehamby@lightside.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bug with moused and XFree86 Message-ID: <199610150644.IAA12312@ra.dkuug.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961015080711.7389C-100000@sdev.usn.blaze.net.au> from "David Nugent" at Oct 15, 96 08:17:42 am
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In reply to David Nugent who wrote:
>
> (moving onto the title bar), the cursor is likely (but not
> always) to jump to an unexpected position on the screen.
> Clicking on title bars will do something similar. The effect is
> more noticable if you attempt to move windows arround. Killing
> moused causes the problem to simply vanish.
>
> >How -current ??
>
> 961004-SNAP is what the kernel reports, or perhaps a day or two
> later - only a week or so old max.
>
> XFree is 3.1.2G
OK.
> >Have you created the /dev/sysmouse & /dev/consolectl devices??
>
> Yes.
OK:
> >Have you enabled the emulate 3 button in moused ??
>
> No.
OK.
> >Have you enabled the emulate 3 button in XFree86 ??
>
> No.
OK.
>
> >What mouse device does XFree86 use ??
>
> /dev/cuaa0
BUMMER! by doing this X and moused competes for the mouse!
You should use /dev/sysmouse in X.
>
> This is a 3 button mouse also, but with switching from microsoft
> and mouse systems mode available (but no middle button in
> microsoft mode, so I tend not to use it that way).
>
> Incidently, is there a software interface to moused available to
> applications?
Yes, there currently only is the ioctl interface that syscons provides
which can report mouseactions via a userdefined signal, but that will
change sometime in the future when I get a little more time finishing
my little pet project.
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Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
So much code to hack -- so little time.
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