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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!blackbush.xlink.net!news.uni-mainz.de!news.th-darmstadt.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help: Mouse trouble Date: 2 Jan 1996 22:55:39 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4ccd5b$gsc@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4cbi0o$8f1@homer.alpha.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 molson@milwaukee.rbvdnr.com (Matto) writes: > I have a serial mouse(Mouse Systems) connected on COM1. In xf86config > I have the mouse as device cuaa0 (this I know to be correct). The > problem I'm having is that in XFree86, the cursor appears in the lower > right area of the screen initially, but as soon as I move the mouse it > moves to the far lower-left corner of the screen and will not move from > there. Seems your mouse is not running Mouse Systems protocol. I could bet it's defaulting to M$ protocol. If it's one of the common dual-protocol mice, try out the ClearDTR or ClearRTS options in the Pointer section of your XF86Config file. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)