From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 18 1:14:39 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23BC037B401 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 01:14:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF00543F85 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 01:14:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1]) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1I9EX5P017093 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 09:14:33 GMT (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost) by happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h1I9EXFk017092 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 09:14:33 GMT Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 09:14:33 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: an "easy mouse question" 4U but "alusive" 2Me Message-ID: <20030218091433.GB16438@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20030218044401.M14462@spinn.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030218044401.M14462@spinn.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.2 required=5.0 tests=DEAR_SOMEBODY,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, SPAM_PHRASE_01_02,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.44 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 09:44:01PM -0700, techie wrote: > Dear FreeBSD moderators, > > First, awesome O/S people! I thank all of you wholeheartedly. The question > is "that" little mouse program or daemonlet that allows you > to "block", "cut and paste" from the command line/console TO X-window > Gnome session windows is causing my generic style, p/s 2 mouse not to work > properly when I start up X. > > I was flying thru your sysinstall program in the wee hours of the morning > loading FreeBSD up, and I don't even remember the "name" of this application > or daemonlet that I said "yes" to at a dialogue window. So, who's the > program and where does he live? I'd like to turn it off. It is starting up > in one of your run-levels somewhere. > > **whatever it is, it creates a ghostlike "mouse cursor" to show up even when > you are working in command line/console mode. You're seeing the effect of moused(8). It's normal behaviour. If you don't want mouse functionality on the console (ie. outside of X Windows), delete the moused_enable="YES" line from /etc/rc.conf, tweak the mouse configuration in /etc/X11/XF86Config and reboot. Look at the rc.conf(5) man page for more details. Generally however, people on this list have reported that the easiest way of configuring a mouse under X Windows is to enable moused, and then have something like this in XF86Config: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" EndSection Optionally there may be various extra flags to moused(8) and modifications to XF86Config in order to enable rollers and extra buttons on the mouse. As far as I know, it's not possible to cut from a console and then paste into X or vice versa. Console to console or X to X is what works. Oh, (being excessively pedantic here) FreeBSD and the *BSD's in general don't use the concept of 'runlevels'. That's a SysV thing as seen in Solaris, Linux or IRIX for example. > ** more remotely, I noticed your device probe calling my generic PS 2 mouse > a "glidepoint" on the second psm0:line?? it reads as follows: > > > psm0:

irq 12 on atkbdc0 (thats right) > psm0: model Glidepoint mouse, device ID 0 (what in tarnation is that??) This is the psm mouse driver reporting what capabilities the mouse has: it seems to think you've got one of those touchpad devices you often get in portables, rather than a real mouse. Probably all it really means is that your mouse has more than the basic two or three buttons. If you can see a mouse sprite that tracks around the screen in response to you moving the mouse and if the various buttons on the mouse behave reasonably, then don't worry about it. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message