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From: shocking@cs.uq.oz.au (Stephen Hocking)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: More on my PS/2 Mouse and XFree86...
Keywords: PS/2 mouse Gateway
Message-ID: <14734@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
Date: 5 Aug 93 05:38:25 GMT
References: <23mkcb$86@aquila.db.erau.edu>
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In <23mkcb$86@aquila.db.erau.edu> buzzardw@db.erau.edu (Bryce Buzzard) writes:
>This is a follow up to my question last week reguarding my PS/2 mouse
>not working on a Gateway 4Dx-33 under netBSD 0.8 running XFree86 v1.3.
>Well, I got it working... Kinda. The mouse will only work when something
>is going on with the machine (i.e. when I hold down the shift key or any
>other key for that matter or if a program is running in the active window.)
>I have no CLUE why it does this, so if I run something as simple as "xeyes"
>and iconify it, I have full control over the mouse while it's in the window
>manager.
You need to have NEW_SELECT defined in the options section of your
kernel config file. The instructions should be in the README as wot came
with the device driver. Mine works fine with this set.
Stephen
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