Subject: Re: cannot use mouse in text-mode
To: roadr <bigmac@home.sirklabs.hu>
From: Soren Jacobsen <devsoren@attbi.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/09/2003 09:42:01
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 05:30:33PM +0100, roadr wrote:
> I have a NetBSD 1.6 box, and I would like to use moused not just in X,
> but in text-mode too. I've tried moused -df -p /dev/tty01, and seemed to
> work right (it can receive data while I'm poking my mouse), but I couldn't
> seen any movement on the console.
> Could anyone tell me what's wrong?

You cannot do this in 1.6. wsmouse(4) does not support serial mice
natively, so moused is needed to use a serial mouse as a wsmouse device.
wsmoused is what you need to use a mouse on a console. Unfortunately,
you have to run current in order to get it. 

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Soren Jacobsen