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From: nickel@prz.tu-berlin.de (Juergen Nickelsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Mouse device under NetBSD ??
Date: 09 Jan 1995 15:27:41 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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In article <3eqmu0$psc@inet.up.ac.za> nthirion@rkw-risc.cs.up.ac.za
(Tpiece) writes:

> Could someone give me some directions for installing a mouse device under
> NetBSD, it seems I cannot see any mouse device. I have a microsoft serial
> mouse and would like the luxury of a mouse in X.

Just tell XFree86 in the config file at which tty it can find the
mouse. And make sure there is no getty running on that tty. Happened
to me. :-}

-- 
Juergen Nickelsen