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Hello All!

I just installed FreeBSD (2.2.2, the latest version I could get on CD in
Germany) for the first time. Now I have a very stupid problem: I don't get the
mouse going. I have tried about every possible protocol combination, but it
won't do. I suspect that I am using the wrong device name or that something in
my kernel setup might be wrong. I don't know if FreeBSD should display a mouse
cursor in text mode; fact is it doesn't. When I start the Xfree server, a mouse
cursor is displayed, but I can't move it around.

The mouse is a Logitech Trackman Marble connected to COM1 (3f8,irq4,16550). It
works fine in OS/2 (Protocol: "Serial") and did work fine in Linux as well
without much ado. Unfortunately I don't remeber how I did it under Linux.

I would be thankful if someone could tell me
 - which /dev/???? to use
 - which protocol to use
 - what to change in the kernel configuration (if I have to)
and how in general the mouse setup should look for my configuration.

Viele Gruesse,
Tobias.

Hello All!

I just installed FreeBSD (2.2.2, the latest version I could get on CD in
Germany) for the first time. Now I have a very stupid problem: I don't get the
mouse going. I have tried about every possible protocol combination, but it
won't do. I suspect that I am using the wrong device name or that something in
my kernel setup might be wrong. I don't know if FreeBSD should display a mouse
cursor in text mode; fact is it doesn't. When I start the Xfree server, a mouse
cursor is displayed, but I can't move it around.

The mouse is a Logitech Trackman Marble connected to COM1 (3f8,irq4,16550). It
works fine in OS/2 (Protocol: "Serial") and did work fine in Linux as well
without much ado. Unfortunately I don't remeber how I did it under Linux.

I would be thankful if someone could tell me
 - which /dev/???? to use
 - which protocol to use
 - what to change in the kernel configuration (if I have to)
and how in general the mouse setup should look for my configuration.

Viele Gruesse,
Tobias.

Quote:> The mouse is a Logitech Trackman Marble connected to COM1

Quote:> works fine in OS/2 (Protocol: "Serial") and did work fine in Linux as
well
> without much ado. Unfortunately I don't remeber how I did it under Linux.
> Viele Gruesse,
> Tobias.

Yours Computationally

Quote:

> I just installed FreeBSD (2.2.2, the latest version I could get on CD
> in Germany) for the first time. Now I have a very stupid problem: I
> don't get the mouse going. I have tried about every possible protocol
> combination, but it won't do.

You know that you must have running moused first and then you are able
to turn on or off the mouse cursor in text mode using vidcontrol ?

vidcontrol:
     -m on|off   Switches the mousepointer on or off. Used together with the
                 moused daemon for textmode cut & paste functionality.

Did you start moused with proper settings ? You should at least
know, to what mouse type your mouse is compatible ... and what
serial speed it supports. I think default is 1200 baud.

moused:
     -t mousetype
             Specify the type of mouse attached to the serial port.  Valid
             mouse types are:
             microsoft        Microsoft mouse
             mousesystems     Mouse systems Corp mouse
             mmseries         MM Series mouse
             logitech         Logitech mouse
             busmouse         A bus mouse
             mouseman         Logitech MouseMan and TrackMan
             ps/2             PS/2 mouse
             mmhittab         MM HitTablet
EXAMPLE
           moused -t microsoft -p /dev/mouse
           vidcontrol -m on

moused also offers a -d (debug) option ... maybe it helps a bit...

Quote:> I suspect that I am using the wrong device name or that something in
> my kernel setup might be wrong.

Quote:> I don't know if FreeBSD should display a mouse cursor in text mode;
> fact is it doesn't.

        man vidcontrol
        man moused

Quote:> When I start the Xfree server, a mouse cursor is displayed, but I
> can't move it around.

        xinit >& x.out

Quote:> The mouse is a Logitech Trackman Marble connected to COM1
> (3f8,irq4,16550). It works fine in OS/2 (Protocol: "Serial") and did
> work fine in Linux as well without much ado. Unfortunately I don't
> remeber how I did it under Linux.

I usually used /dev/cuaa0 as mouse device ...
/dev/mouse is only a symlink to the mouse device which might
be wrong depending on the selection during FreeBSD installation ...

Quote:> I would be thankful if someone could tell me - which /dev/???? to use
> - which protocol to use - what to change in the kernel configuration
> (if I have to) and how in general the mouse setup should look for my
> configuration.

I suggest trying to get the mouse running under XFree86 first ...
Look into the FreeBSD docu, which mouse types are supported and
try them out. I'd not directly fine tune the serial communication
speed. First keep the default of 1200 Baud.

If you installed the standard VGA16 X11 server, the you should
also be able to configure X11 with the X11 based setup program
xf86config if I remember right ...

--
Andreas Klemm                    powered by ,,symmetric multiprocessor FreeBSD''

Hallo Andreas!

Thanks to you and all the others who replied via netmail. I finally got my
mouse going, and it was a real newbie error ;). XFree server support was not
built into my kernel. After I built my own kernel with this flag set the mouse
worked fine. I wonder why a) Xfree support is not in the generice kernel and b)
why Xfree basically runs without this support, just without mouse, but anyway,
its up and going now :).

JFYI, the Logitech Trakman runs wunderfully with the Mouseman protocol.

Quote:> I don't know if FreeBSD should display a mouse cursor in text mode;
> fact is it doesn't.

 AK>    man vidcontrol
 AK>    man moused

OK, I'll have a look.

 AK> You should read or get a handbook for that mouse or at least
 AK> try every mouse type until you find a proper one ..

Thats actually what I had done before I wrote my first mail ...

Viele Gruesse,
Tobias.