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Add a section on sysmouse configuration.

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Brian Somers 1997-04-10 10:20:46 +00:00
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<!DOCTYPE linuxdoc PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD linuxdoc//EN">
<!-- $Id: FAQ.sgml,v 1.41 1997/03/21 18:40:08 wosch Exp $ -->
<!-- $Id: FAQ.sgml,v 1.42 1997/04/05 08:38:48 jkh Exp $ -->
<article>
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<author>Maintainer: Peter da Silva <tt><htmlurl url='mailto:pds@FreeBSD.ORG'
name='&lt;pds@FreeBSD.ORG&gt;'></tt>
Last updated: <date>$Date: 1997/03/15 23:29:02 $</date>
Last updated: <date>$Date: 1997/04/05 08:38:48 $</date>
<abstract>
This is the FAQ for FreeBSD systems version 2.X All entries are
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available at a very reasonable price. See section
<ref id="xinside" name="on Xaccel"> for more details.
<sect1>
<heading>Why doesn't my mouse work with X</heading>
<p>
If you are using syscons (the default console driver), you can
configure FreeBSD to support a mouse pointer on each virtual
screen. In order to avoid conflicting with X, syscons supports
a virtual device called ``<tt>sysmouse</tt>''. All mouse events
received from the real mouse device are written to the sysmouse
device, using the MouseSystems protocol. If you wish to use your
mouse on one or more virtual consoles, <bf/and/ use X, the
following configuration is recommended:
<verb>
/etc/sysconfig:
mousedtype=ps/2 # or whatever your actual type is
mousedport=/dev/psm0 # or whatever your real port is
/etc/XF86Config
Section Pointer
Protocol "MouseSystems"
Device "/dev/sysmouse"
.....
</verb>
<p>
Some people prefer to use ``<tt>/dev/mouse</tt>'' under X. To
make this work, ``<tt>/dev/mouse</tt>'' should be linked to
``<tt>/dev/sysmouse</tt>'':
<verb>
cd /dev
rm -f mouse
ln -s sysmouse mouse
</verb>
<sect1>
<heading>ghostscript gives lots of errors with my 386/486SX.<label id="emul"></heading>