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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: middle mouse button?
Date: 1 Feb 1997 22:39:47 GMT
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espel@llaic.univ-bpclermont.fr (Roger Espel Llima) wrote:

> And that, of course, would have been the right solution (if I had the
> XFree sources on my PC, or anything better than a diskette/IP connection
> to the net) ... but as it turned out the problem was just that I was
> running moused together with XFree, ...

In this case, it was a simple usage error.  moused does already the
mouse translation for you, and pipes it upstream into /dev/sysmouse.
So you should set your XFree86 mouse device to /dev/sysmouse, and
select MouseSystems protocol (since this is what moused emulates).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)