I hate meeses to pieces

Gary Kline kline at thought.org
Fri Jul 18 10:29:29 PDT 2003


On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 12:31:27PM -0400, Kenneth Culver wrote:
> > > > I am an extreme newbie at FreeBSD.  I have it installed but when I go
> > > > into the Xserver in either of the two GUIs I get a weird mouse that
> > > > seems to only be able to stay on the very top of the screen and has
> > > > no vertical movement.
> > > >
> > > > I have it setup on Auto and PS/2 Busmouse settings.  It works when
> > > > the config is run from the command line but it blows up like I
> > > > described upon entering the GUI (i.e. KDE)
> > > >
> > >
> > > I was always told to use "sysmouse" and auto.
> >
> >
> > 	Same here.
> >
> I had this problem when I let X open the /dev entry for the mouse on it's
> own, but if I use moused the problem disappears. So I'd suggest that you
> make sure you're using moused, and then make sure it's using
> /dev/sysmouse. If you're still having the problem after that, then I'm
> out of ideas :-P
> 

	Right.  moused is essential.  Forgot about that piece of the
	puzzle.  

  154  ??  Ss     1:42.59 moused -p /dev/psm0 -t auto

	gary

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