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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Serial Mouse & XFree86
Date: 22 Jan 1996 23:22:51 GMT
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bdqjl43@segal (Vlad Markov) writes:

> I am new to FreeBSD and Xfree86. I can start X, twm comes up but
> the mouse pointer goes to the bottom left corner of the screen
> and stays there.

You've most likely chosen the wrong mouse protocol in XF86Config.
Read the comments there about the available protocols.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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