Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 17:53:06 -0400 (EDT) From: "Donald J. Maddox" <root@rhiannon.scsn.net> To: gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org (Justin T. Gibbs) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Bug with moused and XFree86 Message-ID: <199610152153.RAA00793@rhiannon.scsn.net> In-Reply-To: <199610152141.OAA10562@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at "Oct 15, 96 02:41:38 pm"
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> > I must be missing something here... I normally use /dev/cuaa0 for > >my 'mouseman' type mouse. After reading this thread, I tried using > >/dev/sysmouse instead, but then I don't get any mouse events at all. > >Neither moused nor X see the mouse, and 'cat < /dev/sysmouse' while > >moving the mouse shows nothing. However, all of the above work just > >fine with /dev/cuaa0... > > > > What am I doing wrong? > > You should be running moused on /dev/cuaa0 telling it you have a > 'mouseman' mouse. You should then tell X that you have a mouse systems > mouse on /dev/sysmouse. Having both moused and X using the same > device is bound for trouble since you don't know which of them will > get each event. > Okay, now I see! :-) Thanks for the help... I have been avoiding using moused at all, since it was clearly fighting with X over the pointer. Now I'll finally be able to use both! > -- > Justin T. Gibbs > =========================================== > FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations > =========================================== > -- Donald J. Maddox (dmaddox@scsn.net)
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