Subject: Re: XF86 - one half or the other.
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Kent Polk <kent@tiamat.goathill.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/25/1999 20:34:45
On 25 Mar 1999 12:50:00 -0600, Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net> wrote:
>Well, now my keyboard works fine, but the mouse is useless.  It seems that
>I now have a wsmouse, but pms0 won't open.  What protocol do I tell X to use
>for wsmouse?  Busmouse and "PS/2" are all I could remember the spellings for,
>and they both produce wild behavior.

Please go read my latest response regarding wscons in this newsgroup. Then
set /etc/XF86onfig to the following for a ps/2 mouse:

Section "Pointer"
    Device      "/dev/wsmouse0"
    Protocol    "wsmouse"