Subject: Re: wscons questions
To: None <wojtek@wojtek.from.pl>
From: David Maxwell <david@vex.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/06/2001 23:52:57
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 10:12:10AM +0100, wojtek@wojtek.from.pl wrote:
> k>
> > 1 I thought someone said that gpm was fairly straightforward to compile
> > on NetBSD? (I've always felt more than a little nauseous at the idea
> > of using a mouse to move the text cursor; I've seen/used it on old
> > MS-DOS systems, and utterly fail to see the appeal.)
> >
> > 2 moused? Do you mean wsmouse? I think that moused is a LINUXism,
> > though I could be wrong. Are you asking because you want to port
> > gpm to NetBSD? If so, wsmouse is probably the easiest way to go,
> > but be advised that serial mice cannot be used via wsmouse (so far
> > as I know), but most/all other mice, at least on port-i386, should
> > be accessable via wsmouse with a uniform protocol.
>
> WSMUX(4) NetBSD Programmer's Manual WSMUX(4)
>
> [cutted]
>
> It is also possible to inject events into a multiplexor from a user pro-
> gram. This is used by the moused(8) daemon to take data from a mouse
> connected to a serial port and make it appear on the standard mouse mux.
It exists in FreeBSD also, for console mouse support, but hasn't been
completed in NetBSD yet.
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David Maxwell, david@vex.net|david@maxwell.net -->
All this stuff in twice the space would only look half as bad!
- me