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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!news.sgi.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!centauri.hq.nasa.gov!newsfeed.gsfc.nasa.gov!mcornick From: mcornick@zorak.gsfc.nasa.gov (Mark Cornick) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: XFree86-3.2 & Microsoft Mouse Date: 3 Dec 1996 16:33:13 GMT Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA Lines: 20 Message-ID: <slrn5a8lfv.r1k.mcornick@zorak.gsfc.nasa.gov> References: <23933722.u8t20e.34e60@slip106.termserv.siu.edu> <57ppia$2ae@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: zorak.gsfc.nasa.gov X-Newsreader: slrn (0.8.8.4 (BETA) UNIX) >> I have installed V3.2 of XFree86 on a Gateway-2000 using a "true" Microsoft >> mouse, and FreeBSD 2.2-SNAP. >``conflicts''. And no, psm0 is not what you are looking for if you've >got a Mickeysoft mouse; those mice are serial mice, hence you need to >specify /dev/ttyd0 or /dev/ttyd1 as the mouse device. Just for clarification, not all Microsoft-manufactured mice are considered "Microsoft" mice by FreeBSD, XF86, Linux etc. If it has a round mini-DIN connector on the end, it's a "PS/2" mouse, not a "Microsoft" mouse. I believe Gateway has shipped PS/2 mice with their machines for the past few years - at least, the one I bought in '94, and the ones I've seen since, have the PS/2 style mice and ports. --mark -- Mark Cornick / HSTX/NASA GSFC LTP Terrestrial Info Systems, Code 922 mark.cornick@gsfc.nasa.gov / (301) 286-1486 / (301) 286-1757 fax