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Update Question 11.8:

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- Mark up syscons(4), sysmouse(4), moused(8)
- Turn "FreeBSD" into &os;
- Replace old symlink method with devfs(5)

Reviewed by:  trhodes, danger
Approved by:  gabor
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Gabor Pali 2008-06-21 07:55:39 +00:00
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@ -6717,13 +6717,13 @@ options SYSVMSG # enable for messaging</programlisting>
</question>
<answer>
<para>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
<para>If you are using &man.syscons.4; (the default console driver),
you can configure &os; to support a mouse pointer on each
virtual screen. In order to avoid conflicting with X, &man.syscons.4;
supports a virtual device called
<devicename>/dev/sysmouse</devicename>. All mouse events received
from the real mouse device are written to the sysmouse device
via moused. If you wish to use your mouse on one or more
from the real mouse device are written to the &man.sysmouse.4; device
via &man.moused.8;. If you wish to use your mouse on one or more
virtual consoles, <emphasis>and</emphasis> use X, see
<xref linkend="moused" remap="another section"> and set up
moused.</para>
@ -6740,11 +6740,18 @@ options SYSVMSG # enable for messaging</programlisting>
<devicename>/dev/mouse</devicename> under X. To make this
work, <devicename>/dev/mouse</devicename> should be linked
to <devicename>/dev/sysmouse</devicename> (see
&man.sysmouse.4;):</para>
&man.sysmouse.4;) by adding the following line to
<filename>/etc/devfs.conf</filename> (see
&man.devfs.conf.5;):</para>
<programlisting>link sysmouse mouse</programlisting>
<para>This link can be created by restarting &man.devfs.5;
with the following command (as
<username>root</username>):</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>/etc/rc.d/devfs restart</userinput></screen>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /dev</userinput>
&prompt.root; <userinput>rm -f mouse</userinput>
&prompt.root; <userinput>ln -s sysmouse mouse</userinput></screen>
</answer>
</qandaentry>