On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 10:12:10AM +0100, wojtek@wojtek.from.pl wrote:
> k> 
> >  1 I thought someone said that gpm was fairly straightforward to compile
> >    on NetBSD?  (I've always felt more than a little nauseous at the idea
> >    of using a mouse to move the text cursor; I've seen/used it on old
> >    MS-DOS systems, and utterly fail to see the appeal.)
> > 
> >  2 moused?  Do you mean wsmouse?  I think that moused is a LINUXism,
> >    though I could be wrong.  Are you asking because you want to port
> >    gpm to NetBSD?  If so, wsmouse is probably the easiest way to go,
> >    but be advised that serial mice cannot be used via wsmouse (so far
> >    as I know), but most/all other mice, at least on port-i386, should
> >    be accessable via wsmouse with a uniform protocol.
> 
> WSMUX(4)                  NetBSD Programmer's Manual                  WSMUX(4)
> 
> [cutted]
> 
>      It is also possible to inject events into a multiplexor from a user pro-
>      gram.  This is used by the moused(8) daemon to take data from a mouse
>      connected to a serial port and make it appear on the standard mouse mux.

It exists in FreeBSD also, for console mouse support, but hasn't been
completed in NetBSD yet. 

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