* Harry Waddell <waddell@caravan.com> [2003-01-21 03:42]:
> On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 01:27:34 +0100
> Timo Schmidt <list-netbsd@xomit.de> wrote:
> =20
> > I've recently installed NetBSD 1.6 i386 on a IBM Thinkpad
> > R32. Although the mouse works fine under X, the moused fails
> > to start.
>=20
> moused is for serial mice. based on your dmesg output below,
> you have a pms(4) mouse, so you don't need to run moused.
> look at the pms man page.  You'll see that a wsmouse device
> is attached to the pms device at autoconfig time, therefore
> no moused is needed.

Oh, so I didn't get the message of the moused man page. :-)
Is it possible to get a working mouse on the console. e.g.
to copy and paste text between the VTs?

=20
> > | # grep wsmouse /etc/X11/XF86Config
> > |       Option      "Protocol" "wsmouse"
> > |       Option      "Device" "/dev/wsmouse0"
>=20
> try changing wsmouse0 to wsmouse above. You want to use the
> mouse multiplexer device, e.g. if you attach a  usb mouse, it
> will be wsmouse1 and both sets of mouse signals get
> multiplexed through /dev/wsmouse.

Since I've disabled the moused, =BB/dev/wsmouse=AB is working
fine. Thank you for your suggestion.


  -Timo