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Re: almost there
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas C Sobczynski)
Tue Oct 20 23:23:26 1998
To: "Abraham R. McAllister" <abraham@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Oct 1998 23:19:47 EDT."
<199810210319.XAA22529@gaston.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 23:23:17 EDT
From: Thomas C Sobczynski <tcs@MIT.EDU>
>
> Hey!
>
> The install went through this time. Thanks! Now, I cannot get
> the mouse to work in X. They keyboard and screen look fine, but the
> mouse cursor just doesn't move. I have no way of verifying if the
> mouse itself is functional, I just know that it worked a month ago.
>
> I was wondering if you could tell me what should go in the
> pointer section of /etc/XF86Config. The computer is a DELL Optiplex
> 466/LE. The mouse has two buttons, is made by logitech, and plugs
> into what looks like a bus port (ie it's a circular port).
>
> What should the protocol and device lines be?
>
> Thanks for your continuing help,
>
> -Abe
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> Abraham R. McAllister (617)225-1612
> MIT Eta Kappa Nu president http://web.mit.edu/abraham
>
> "Life is 1% what happens to you,
> and 99% how you deal with it."
>
My XF86Config Pointer section looks like this:
Section "Pointer"
Protocol "Busmouse"
Device "/dev/pms0"
Protocol should *always* be "Busmouse," and Device is well, whatever
your mouse device is. I sure dunno.
