Question about USB mice and X-Windows

Stepan Zastupov redchrom at gmail.com
Thu Oct 26 18:12:15 UTC 2006


On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 01:06:44PM -0500, Phusion wrote:
> I have FreeBSD setup my Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop and can use
> X-Windows fine. I am using GNOME. The laptop starts up with GDM and
> then I go into GNOME. I have already gotten my mouse to work. I want
> to use my USB mouse so I plug it in while in GNOME but doesn't work.
> Also, USB along with USB mice are already compiled into the kernel.
> Also, I'm not using moused. Do I need to change my xorg.conf file? Let
> me know what I can do to use this USB mouse when I want after the
> computer is running X-Windows.
> 
Enable moused and set mouse device to /dev/sysmouse in xorg.conf. Plug a
mouse.

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Best regards, Stepan Zastupov aka RedChrom
ISPSystem


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