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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!uknet!comlab.ox.ac.uk!oxuniv!long From: long@vax.oxford.ac.uk (NEIL J LONG) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: support for Mice?? Message-ID: <1994May31.172822.23325@oxvaxd> Date: 31 May 94 17:28:22 BST References: <1994May23.225451.23101@oxvaxd> <1994May27.164307.23257@oxvaxd> Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620 Lines: 41 In article <1994May27.164307.23257@oxvaxd>, long@vax.oxford.ac.uk (NEIL J LONG) writes: > In article <1994May23.225451.23101@oxvaxd>, long@vax.oxford.ac.uk (NEIL J LONG) writes: >> hello >> Just a quick question - I scanned the faq and I understand that FreeBSD only >> supports Logitech and ATI mice - just curious as to why there is no support for >> the ubiquitous Microsoft Mouse and its kind. >> I have seen references to the PS/2 type mouse driver package - is there >> something similar for the little serial rodent and would it make it possible to >> use them (in 3 button emulator mode) for XFree86? >> >> Thanks >> Neil > > I still cannot get startx to find the mouse - it never seems to find a valid > device file. > I tried running MAKEDV with (mouse, com1, etc) options and it does not seem to > create anything valid. > > Could someone please tell me exactly what I need to do create the mouse and com > port devices. > > Microsoft mouse on (PC) com1: > > Irritating as startx is happy with all the twiddly video modes stuff. > > Thanks > Neil > Well just to close this out - I had to (in /dev) ./MAKEDEV tty00 and in Xconfig microsoft "/dev/tty00" For some reason there wasn't a device for the serial port after installation. Neil Thanks for all the positive suggestions - there seem to be other people with a similar problem after new installations.