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5.1. About mouse configuration

If your serial mouse does not work try using kermit or tip to connect to the mouse serial port and verify that it does indeed generate characters.

The NetBSD pms mouse driver handles PS/2 style mice as Busmouse. Specify the protocol as ``busmouse'' in the mouse section of your XF86Config file if you're using a PS/2 mouse.

Only standard PS/2 mice are supported by this driver. Newest PS/2 mice that send more than three bytes at a time (especially Intellimouse, or MouseMan+ with a ``3D'' roller) are not supported yet.

XFree86 3.3.4 and later also have support for the mouse driver included in the new wscons console driver introduced by NetBSD 1.4. Specify ``wsmouse'' as the protocol and ``/dev/wsmouse0'' as the device in /etc/XF86Config if you're using NetBSD 1.4 with wscons.

See README.mouse for general instruction on mouse configuration in XFree86.


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