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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc 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!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!165.254.2.53!nonexistent.com!not-for-mail From: Nathan Dorfman <nathan@senate.org> Subject: Re: moused and X Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: Email abuse@news2.new-york.net if this posting is inappropriate Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Senate Industries Message-ID: <EB7y4w.Mr4@nonexistent.com> References: <EB01rn.87H@nonexistent.com> <6D505EEFC5A3F068.90CB6679B266FD3B.9BC5A71ED7972D0A@library-proxy.airnews.net> X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: 865373069 27329 nathan [204.141.125.38] X-Nntp-Posting-Host: senate.org Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 21:23:18 GMT Lines: 28 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42219 Brian Somers wrote: > > In article <EB01rn.87H@nonexistent.com>, > Nathan Dorfman <nathan@senate.org> writes: > > This is a question that probably comes up quite often ... is it possible > > to have moused and X work simultaneously? I remember gpm had no problems > > running with X under Linux, if you were using a serial mouse. > > There's a section in either the FAQ or the handbook (or both). > > You need to use the virtual "sysmouse" device and the mousesystems > protocol in X. > > -- > Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org> > <http://www.awfulhak.org> > Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! Actually I put /dev/sysmouse in XF86Config and then moused worked, but when I started X, the pointer was magnetically attracted to topleft. Perhaps I tried it wrong, and need to do /dev/cuaa0 in XF86Config, and sysmouse in moused. Will try. -- ##################### For PGP key, telnet senate.org 5000 # Nathan Dorfman # or finger nathan@senate.org # Senate Industries # /'-- www.senate.org | ftp.senate.org -- `\ ##################### \________________________________________/