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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help! get my mouse to work.
Date: 11 Nov 1996 03:45:37 -0000
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In article <328407c1.7088790@news.idt.net>,
Fantomas@at.com writes:
: Please help me to get my mouse working. I have a regular Microsoft mouse
: conected to its own port (round plug). I don't know what device to use? Tried
: ttyd0 to ttyd3 but that did not work. On ttyd0 i could see it but it does move
: at all. On the other ones startx did not work at all with message unknown mouse.
: Could you please help me to get my mouse to work.
Try using /dev/psm0. You'll need to enable it (type -c at the boot prompt)
if you're using the generic kernel.
Usually, people link using /dev/mouse - ie. "cd /dev; ln -s psm0 mouse",
then use /dev/mouse.
--
Brian <brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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