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From: jimd@slip106.termserv.siu.edu (Jim Dutton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help with XFree86 + Mouse
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 00:09:16 CST
Organization: Southern Illinois University
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	     (from David Henshaw <dhenshaw@silas.cc.monash.edu.au>)
	     (at Sun, 27 Apr 1997 13:12:22 +1000)
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> ishwar rattan wrote:
> > 
> > I am trying to install XFree86. Configure goes OK, mostly
> > default values -- except the mouse device part. Chose
> >  /dev/tty00
> > startx complains about `fatal error: can't open /dev/tty00',
> > seems ok (there is none). Chose
> >  /dev/mouse             (is a link to /dev/cuaa0)
> > startx starts and screen goes blank and machine crashes.

What type of mouse do you have? I had a "PS/2" mouse, though it wasn't
labelled as such, and had to define my mouse as "ps/2".

If you use the X86Setup from the XFree86 FTP site, it will give you
several mouse options to select from.