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From: bcaruthe@us.oracle.com (Bruce Caruthers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: [FreeBSD] Can't get mouse to work
Date: 5 Aug 1994 03:25:52 GMT
Organization: Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores, Calif.
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I posted about this several days ago, but didn't get any replies
(apologies if they haven't propagated to my site yet).

I am running FreeBSD 1.1 Release, and XFree86 2.1 (both off of the
BSDisc v1 #2).  I got X running and can type into the one window
that my mouse happens to be over, but I cannot figure out how to
get the mouse recognized.  It is a serial mouse (presumably tty00,
since it is DOS COM1) [Mouse Systems OmniMouse II].  I don't get 
any complaints about it not being configured -- it just doesn't
*work*.

Any ideas?  Am I missing something from my kernel, possibly?  Do I
need some additional line in my Xconfig?  I currently have

MouseSystems "/dev/tty00"
ChordMiddle

or something close to that.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  It's been very frustrating
*almost* having everything working for over a week, now.

-bkc

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Bruce Caruthers		bcaruthe@Oracle.Com		bkc@cs.Princeton.Edu
"To get the attention of a large animal, be it an elephant or a bureaucracy,
 it helps to know what part of it feels pain.  Be very sure, though, that
 you want its full attention."		-- Kelvin Throop, "Analog" Dec 1984