*BSD News Article 58203


Return to BSD News archive

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!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.mid.net!newsfeeder.gi.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!chi-news.cic.net!nntp.coast.net!news.sprintlink.net!ns1.tstt.net.tt!nobody
From: feisal@tstt.net.tt
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help: Dead mouse in XFree86
Date: 27 Dec 1995 09:22:47 -0400
Organization: Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago	
Lines: 12
Sender: feisal@ns1.tstt.net.tt
Message-ID: <4brhb7$k17@ns1.tstt.net.tt>
NNTP-Posting-Host: ns1.tstt.net.tt

From: molson@milwaukee.rbvdnr.com (Matto)
>After finally getting X-Windows to run, my mouse is dead.
>The cursor appears on the screen but X doesn't respond to
>the mouse.  I have a bus mouse connected to COM1.  I haven't
>been able to "find" the connection using "cat /dev/mouse" or
>"cat /dev/cuaa*".  I'm sure this is the problem but I don't

Try using "/dev/ttyd1" in your XF86Config, the ttyd are for
"in" like logging in or mouse while cuaa's are for out like
modems etc.

-Feisal