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Re: mouse not working
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Franks)
Mon Apr 1 11:08:05 1996
To: Daniel P Kamalic <pocky@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 31 Mar 1996 23:30:55 EST."
<199604010430.XAA25705@pockyfiend.MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1996 11:01:11 EST
From: Steve Franks <sdfranks@MIT.EDU>
>> Hi there. I just installed NetBSD-1.1 and everything works fine except
>> in X, I can't get the mouse to work. In XF86Config I have the
>> device set to /dev/tty00 (it's a serial mouse on com1). When the
>> system boots, the kernel does recognize the port, but when I start up
>> X, it doesn't move. It also worked under 1.0A on the same setting.
>> Any ideas?
>
>
> I had a lot of problems with my mouse (turned out to be a _memory_
>problem), and people told me to try every applicable mouse setting in
>XF86Config. If it's a mousesystems mouse, have you tried using both the
>three-button mousesystems and the two-button microsoft modes? How about
>the logitech switch? Try tty01 for com2, perhaps.
I tried all of these things, and none worked. The odd part is that the
mouse worked fine on these settings under 1.0A.
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Steve Franks
sdfranks@mit.edu
<http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/sdfranks/sdfranks.html>
