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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!think.com!enterpoop.mit.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!uw-beaver!newsfeed.rice.edu!rice!news.Rice.edu!rich From: rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey) Subject: Re: Mouse under XFree86-1.2 In-Reply-To: cobb@krazykat.engin.umich.edu's message of 19 Mar 1993 17:48:20 GMT Message-ID: <RICH.93Mar20113254@omicron.Rice.edu> Lines: 16 Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Reply-To: Rich-Murphey@Rice.edu Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University References: <1od114INNd71@srvr1.engin.umich.edu> Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1993 17:32:54 GMT >>>>> In article <1od114INNd71@srvr1.engin.umich.edu>, cobb@krazykat.engin.umich.edu (Paul Cobb) writes: Paul> I've finally got 386bsd 0.1 and XFree86-1.2 installed and I've Paul> got the X coming up with xterm, but I don't get any movement out Paul> of my mouse. I wonder if I don't have the wrong device for the Paul> mouse. The docs say /dev/tty00 which has node numbers of 5 0 Paul> when you do an ls. Are these correct? I've tried using both a Paul> Logitech busmouse with busmouse in the Xconfig and a z-nix Paul> serial mouse but I'm not sure if that's supported. Any help Paul> would be appreciated. The major and minor numbers depend on which com driver you are using. The easiest way to sort out problems with a non-responsive mouse is to use kermit to connect to the mouse port and observe whether it is generating characters. Rich