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31.Dd December 16, 1996
32.Dt MOUSED 8
33.Os FreeBSD
34.Sh NAME
35.Nm moused
36.Nd pass mouse data to console driver
37.Sh SYNOPSIS
38.Nm
39.Op Fl DRcdfs
40.Op Fl S Ar baudrate
41.Fl p Ar port
42.Fl t Ar mousetype
43.Sh DESCRIPTION
44The mouse daemon listens to a serial port for mouse data,
45interprets the data and then passes ioctls to the console
46driver.
47.Pp
48The options are as follows:
49.Bl -tag -width indent
50.It Fl D
51Lower DTR on the serial port.
52.It Fl R
53Lower RTS on the serial port.
54.It Fl S Ar baudrate
55Select the baudrate for the serial port (1200 to 9600).
56.It Fl c
57Enable ChordMiddle option.
58.It Fl d
59Enable debugging messages.
60.It Fl f
61Do not become a daemon and instead run as a foreground process.
62.It Fl p Ar port
63Use
64.Ar port
65as the serial port to communicate with the mouse.
66.It Fl s
67Select a baudrate of 9600 for the serial line.
68.It Fl t Ar mousetype
69Specify the type of mouse attached to the
70serial port.  Valid mouse types are:
71.Pp
72.Bl -tag -compact -width mousesystemsxxx
73.It microsoft
74Microsoft mouse
75.It mousesystems
76Mouse systems Corp mouse
77.It mmseries
78MM Series mouse
79.It logitech
80Logitech mouse
81.It busmouse
82A bus mouse
83.It mouseman
84Logitech MouseMan and TrackMan
85.It ps/2
86PS/2 mouse
87.It mmhittab
88MM HitTablet
89.El
90.El
91.Sh SEE ALSO
92.Xr keyboard 4 ,
93.Xr pcvt 4 ,
94.Xr screen 4
95.Sh AUTHORS
96The
97.Nm
98command was written by Michael Smith.  This manual page
99was written by Mike Pritchard <mpp@FreeBSD.org>.
100.Sh HISTORY
101The
102.Nm moused
103command first appeared in
104.Fx 2.2 .
105