From 0c4b5d07eb4654fb5830d8ef5810526978731649 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 15:45:35 +0000
Subject: YAMFC: Update FAQ with sysmouse section, add comment before
 mousedtype setting in sysconfig.

---
 FAQ/FAQ.sgml | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'FAQ/FAQ.sgml')

diff --git a/FAQ/FAQ.sgml b/FAQ/FAQ.sgml
index a69058a1e2..59a545e8c7 100644
--- a/FAQ/FAQ.sgml
+++ b/FAQ/FAQ.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <!DOCTYPE linuxdoc PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD linuxdoc//EN">
-<!-- $Id: FAQ.sgml,v 1.13.2.9 1997-04-10 21:28:16 jkh Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: FAQ.sgml,v 1.13.2.10 1997-04-11 15:45:35 brian Exp $ -->
 
   <article>
 
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 <author>Maintainer: Peter da Silva <tt><htmlurl url='mailto:pds@FreeBSD.ORG'
   name='&lt;pds@FreeBSD.ORG&gt;'></tt>
 
-Last updated: <date>$Date: 1997-04-10 21:28:16 $</date>
+Last updated: <date>$Date: 1997-04-11 15:45:35 $</date>
 
 <abstract>
 This is the FAQ for FreeBSD systems version 2.X  All entries are
@@ -1605,6 +1605,42 @@ options		"CMD640"
           available at a very reasonable price.  See section
           <ref id="xinside" name="on Xaccel"> for more details.
 
+      <sect1>
+        <heading>Why doesn't my mouse work with X</heading>
+
+        <p>
+          If you are using syscons (the default console driver), you can
+          configure FreeBSD to support a mouse pointer on each virtual
+          screen.  In order to avoid conflicting with X, syscons supports
+          a virtual device called ``<tt>sysmouse</tt>''.  All mouse events
+          received from the real mouse device are written to the sysmouse
+          device, using the MouseSystems protocol.  If you wish to use your
+          mouse on one or more virtual consoles, <bf/and/ use X, the
+          following configuration is recommended:
+
+        <verb>
+          /etc/sysconfig:
+            mousedtype=ps/2          # or whatever your actual type is
+            mousedport=/dev/psm0     # or whatever your real port is
+
+          /etc/XF86Config
+            Section Pointer
+                Protocol "MouseSystems"
+                Device   "/dev/sysmouse"
+                .....
+        </verb>
+
+        <p>
+          Some people prefer to use ``<tt>/dev/mouse</tt>'' under X.  To
+          make this work, ``<tt>/dev/mouse</tt>'' should be linked to
+          ``<tt>/dev/sysmouse</tt>'':
+
+        <verb>
+          cd /dev
+          rm -f mouse
+          ln -s sysmouse mouse
+        </verb>
+
       <sect1>
         <heading>ghostscript gives lots of errors with my 386/486SX.<label id="emul"></heading>
 
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