Chainsawing the "Mouse" section of the FAQ

[Christopher Nehren]

On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 11:27, Michael W . Lucas wrote:
> I propose rearranging these as follows:
> 
> What sorts of mice does FreeBSD support?
>         includes: 4.11, 4.12, 4.15, 4.16, 4.18.
>         Give device driver names but refer users to LINT/NOTES and man pages
>           for kernel configurations
> 
> How do I use a mouse in console mode?
>         includes: 4.13, 4.14
> 
> Any comments?

I'd put something in there about using moused(8) along with XFree86 ("My
mouse doesn't work in X!"; possibly linked to from a document on X about
using moused with X). Also, a short bit comparing moused to gpm on Linux
might help ("Why can't I click things in Links on the console?"[1]).

[1]: If you -can-, this email serves as a very good reason to include
such information. ;)
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