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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.sgi.com!news1.best.com!bofh.noc.best.net!not-for-mail From: rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How use a mouse with FreeBSD Date: 8 Dec 1996 20:39:12 -0800 Organization: fidgety systems administrators gmbh Lines: 26 Message-ID: <58g55g$mhk@bofh.noc.best.net> References: <32a6c4a1.5565599@nntpserver.vol.it> <32aa6a53.2747004@news.zippo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bofh.noc.best.net In article <32aa6a53.2747004@news.zippo.com>, Enoch Wexler <wexler@inter.net.il> wrote: >On Fri, 06 Dec 1996 18:47:07 GMT, gcocc@mbox.vol.it (Giacomo >Cocchella) wrote: >>How may I use a mouse (Logitech) under FreeBSD? I've installed it in >>XFree but I'd like to use it under tty. >I asked it here and repeated this question in questions@freebsd.org >and in hackers@freebsd.org. ONLY ONE answer came through: >There is no standard API for a mouse in Unix (only under X). True or >false, I don't know. >Never mind portability, it seems that nobody bothered to provide any >doc on programming the mouse under FreeBSD -- we are expected to >discover it by ourselves from mouse.h, psm.c and mse.c :-( >I guess this piece of code was blindly copied from 386BSD :-) I don't think it's quite that bad... I'm not sure how to tell between psm and mse, but if your mouse is a serial mouse, it's likely going to be on sio0 (COM1). You can probably just make a link /dev/mouse pointing to /dev/cuaa0, but xf86config/XF86Setup should be able to do that for you. rone -- Ron Echeverri Best Internet Usenet Administration rone@best.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- And remember, it's spelled N-e-t-s-c-a-p-e, but it's pronounced "bloatware".