I've been meaning to ask for a while - how does one attach a mouse to
wsmouse *after* booting?

eg. to change mice without rebooting, or have two mice connected and switch
between them...

g.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: port-i386-owner@netbsd.org [mailto:port-i386-owner@netbsd.org]On
> Behalf Of Richard Rauch
> Sent: Saturday, 19 May 2001 12:52 AM
> To: BSD
> Cc: port-i386@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: wsmouse
>
>
> > I have a lot of problems with running the PS2-mouse under
> /dev/wsmouse0 ,
> > it is functioning but the marker is running around like a
> madman when you
>
> The behavior that you describe is consistant with the mouse driver getting
> the wrong protocol, so events are not understood.
>
> One possibility is that you didn't try telling X to use the "wsmouse"
> protocol.  (I can't remember if the X configuration tools/docs actually
> mention this, but wsmouse uses a standard, albeit custom, mouse protocol
> for ALL mice.  The NetBSD version of XFree86 knows about the wsmouse
> protocol, whether or not the documentation/config-tools mention it.)
>
> Another possibility is that you have a mouse that isn't supported by the
> wsmouse driver in the kernel.  I DOUBT that this is the problem, if you
> are using a standard 1.5 kernel.
>