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3.9. NetBSD

NetBSD 1.3.x and former does not support extended PS/2 mouse protocols ("xxxPS/2"). The PS/2 mouse device driver /dev/pms emulates the bus mouse. Therefore, you should always specify the "BusMouse" protocol for any PS/2 mouse regardless of the brand of the mouse.

XFree86 3.3.6 supports the "wsmouse" protocol introduced in NetBSD 1.4 along with the wscons console driver. You need to run binaries compiled on NetBSD 1.4 to have support for it though. Use "/dev/wsmouse0" for the device. Refer to the wsmouse(4) manual page for kernel configuration informations.

This driver also provides support for USB mices. See the ums(4) manual page for details.


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