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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!gomel.knirsch.de!knobel.knirsch.de!knobel.knirsch.de!andreas From: andreas@knobel.knirsch.de (Andreas Klemm) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Newbie mouse help Date: 11 Jun 1994 16:37:49 GMT Organization: @ $HOME, 41469 Neuss, Germany Lines: 33 Message-ID: <2tcp9f$1au@knobel.knirsch.de> References: <netnewsCr6zup.4I0@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: knobel.knirsch.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] mhulse@netcom.com wrote: : I am learning FreeBSD and trying to set up X windows. My problem is getting the : mouse to work within Xwin. I have a standalone PC with a MS mouse plugged into : comA (serial port). I've tried using both tty00 and tty01 within Xconfig, but : the cursor dosen't respond. : Does the mouse need to be set up within FreeBSD first (how)? Should I be using : another device within /dev for the mouse? You have to use the cua0? devices, I use: Logitech "/dev/cua00" BaudRate 9600 SampleRate 150 This with the sio driver... Another good idea is to watch debugging output od the X server: When using csh as login shell: startx >& x11.log After terminating X you can watch debugging output. Or running the server with the probeonly option ... X -probeonly >& x11.log Best regards Andreas /// -- Andreas Klemm /\/\____ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH andreas@knobel.knirsch.de ___/\/\/ andreas@wupmon.wup.de (Unix Support)