Mouse in X

Henrik W Lund henrik.w.lund at broadpark.no
Fri Jul 9 12:04:47 PDT 2004


Stanley Wright wrote:

>I have set FBSD up on an old pentium II MMX 233 MHZ machine and everything works fine except for the mouse (serial). When using X the mouse behaves crazy i cant get it to move in any useful way. Ive checked and checked and found:
>edit /etc/XF86Config and set Protocol to "Sysmouse" and Device to "/dev/sysmouse" but this does not work- any suggestions ?
> 
>Thanks
>Stan
>  
>
Greetings!!

The settings you just described are only correct if you're running 
moused. Are you running moused, and if so, is the mouse working in the 
console?

-Henrik W Lund


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