From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 6 00:00:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA28641 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 6 Sep 1997 00:00:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts16-line4.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.204]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA28636 for ; Sat, 6 Sep 1997 00:00:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA07807; Sat, 6 Sep 1997 00:00:12 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 00:00:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Jeff Nanbara cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems with mouse In-Reply-To: <340FADCD.788C@ap-usa.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 5 Sep 1997, Jeff Nanbara wrote: > Hello, > > I finally have given up after 3 days of trying to get this box to > understand that a mouse is attached. > > Built new box with 686 P200 and attached an old functioning mouse from > an ACER (logitech 2 button) through a 9 pin plug and into serial port > (COM1) I have it defined in rc.conf (logitech /dev/mouse) ran moused > with "moused -f -p /dev/mouse -t logitech", sio0 is found in boot up and > still won't function in XFree. Tried all protocals and all that I found > in the FAQ and Handbook. I give up..... Set the device as '/dev/sysmouse' and type as 'Mouse Systems'. Looks like I need to write an addendum to the moused man page. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo