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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!sgiblab!gatekeeper.us.oracle.com!dcsun4.us.oracle.com!bcaruthe 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. Lines: 33 Message-ID: <31sbg0$s39@dcsun4.us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kate.us.oracle.com 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 -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality." (Jules de Gaultier) -- 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