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- From: rrigby@sol.slc.mentorg.com (Rodney Rigby (LithoCAD))
- Subject: Re: I'm an Xfree conehead
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.175909.10418@caeco.mentorg.com>
- Sender: rrigby@sol (Rodney Rigby (LithoCAD))
- Organization: Mentor Graphics Corp., Murray, Utah
- References: <1992Dec28.222411.2894@caeco.mentorg.com> <4353@elwood.prz.tu-berlin.de> <1992Dec29.170231.9985@caeco.mentorg.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 17:59:09 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.170231.9985@caeco.mentorg.com>, rrigby@sol.slc.mentorg.com (Rodney Rigby (LithoCAD)) writes:
- >
- > After changing my mouse to com2 as suggested above, I get the color x screen and
- > a clock and a bash window :^) But, my mouse doesn't seem to work right :^(
- > When I move the mouse, I sporadically get the cursor to move. I have a logitech+
- > version 2.12 mouse. In my Xconfig file I've set the baud rate to 9600 and the
- > sample rate to 150. I've tried the mouse program in the tst directory of
- > /usr/X386 with roughly the same results. So now what? I'm stuck again.
- >
- > BTW, I remember reading that if you selected a com port for which the hardware
- > didn't exist, you would lock up the machine. I also figured out that com1 was
- > /dev/ttys0. Then I set the config file to (the nonexistant) COM3. Sheesh. I
- > really am a cone head.
- >
-
- I got it working!!!! (I'm just a teensy bit excited) I told the XConfig it was
- a microsoft mouse, and voila! Thanks to all for the help. Especially Peter
- Hofmann. What a great system!
-
- Rodney (conehead) Rigby
-