From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 12 12:51:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7684414D32 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 12:51:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjvc@extremis.demon.co.uk) Received: from extremis.demon.co.uk ([194.222.242.30]) by anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 128UjO-000KtU-0V for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 20:51:04 +0000 Received: (qmail 549 invoked by uid 1010); 12 Jan 2000 20:25:52 -0000 Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 20:25:52 +0000 From: George Cox To: Jimmy Hjelm Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PS/2 Mouse Message-ID: <20000112202552.C300@extremis.demon.co.uk> References: <001b01bf5c6d$0dc0e800$acbd43c3@julia> <20000111235915.B2065@extremis.demon.co.uk> <003001bf5cee$5218ebc0$4cbc43c3@julia> <20000112143905.A352@extremis.demon.co.uk> <001501bf5d2e$7058a680$36bc43c3@julia> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.1i In-Reply-To: <001501bf5d2e$7058a680$36bc43c3@julia>; from jimbo99@telia.com on Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 07:52:15PM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT (i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 12/01 19:52, Jimmy Hjelm wrote: > > That's not right. /dev/mouse, if it exists, should point to /dev/psm0 > > -- the PS/2 port itself. Point moused at /dev/psm0 and X at > > /dev/sysmouse. > > > > That is one step forward! > > Now when moused is started at boot, an arrow is showing. If I touch the > mouse, however, it goes away. At least that's a sign of life! This is a symptom of using the wrong protocol. > If moused is started manually, nothing happens. What arguments are you passing to moused? > In X, nothing happens, regardless of mouseport and protocol. :-( We'll get moused working first, and then getting it working under X (using /dev/sysmouse) will be a snap. best; gjvc -- [gjvc] 4.4BSD 4.ever! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message