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.\"	$Id: moused.8,v 1.5 1997/07/27 23:10:33 wosch Exp $
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.Dd December 16, 1996
.Dt MOUSED 8
.Os FreeBSD
.Sh NAME
.Nm moused
.Nd pass mouse data to console driver
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl DRcdfs
.Op Fl r Ar samplerate
.Op Fl S Ar baudrate
.Fl p Ar port
.Fl t Ar mousetype
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The mouse daemon listens to a serial port for mouse data,
interprets the data and then passes ioctls to the console
driver.
.Pp
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl D
Lower DTR on the serial port.
.It Fl R
Lower RTS on the serial port.
.It Fl S Ar baudrate
Select the baudrate for the serial port (1200 to 9600).
.It Fl c
Enable ChordMiddle option.
.It Fl d
Enable debugging messages.
.It Fl f
Do not become a daemon and instead run as a foreground process.
.It Fl p Ar port
Use
.Ar port
as the serial port to communicate with the mouse.
.It Fl r
Set the bit sample rate on devices that support it (in Dots Per Inch).
.It Fl s
Select a baudrate of 9600 for the serial line.
.It Fl t Ar mousetype
Specify the type of mouse attached to the
serial port.  Valid mouse types are:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -compact -width mousesystemsxxx
.It microsoft
Microsoft mouse
.It mousesystems
Mouse systems Corp mouse
.It mmseries
MM Series mouse
.It logitech
Logitech mouse
.It busmouse
A bus mouse
.It mouseman
Logitech MouseMan and TrackMan
.It ps/2
PS/2 mouse
.It mmhittab
MM HitTablet
.El
.El
.Sh EXAMPLE
.Pp
.Dl moused -t microsoft -p /dev/mouse 
.Dl vidcontrol -m on
.Pp
Start the mouse daemon on the serial device 
.Pa /dev/mouse
for a microsoft mouse and enable the mousepointer.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr vidcontrol 1 ,
.Xr keyboard 4 ,
.Xr pcvt 4 ,
.Xr screen 4 ,
.Xr sysmouse 4
.Sh AUTHORS
The
.Nm
command was written by
.An Michael Smith .

This manual page
was written by
.An  Mike Pritchard Aq mpp@FreeBSD.org .
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
command first appeared in
.Fx 2.2 .