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Date: Tue,  1 Jun 2004 07:58:21 -0400
Subject: Re: [9fans] Help getting Plan9 to recognize my mouse
From: "Joel Salomon" <salomo3@cooper.edu>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Welcome, Michael!

Michael Hughes said:
> I have the typical Logitech LED Wheel Mouse. I plugged it into the PS2
> port with a USB-PS2 adapter.
>
Do you have a usb port on your computer, or must you plug the mouse in vi=
a
the adaptor?

> The install process recognized the mouse pointer
> and I successfully moved it around the screen to make sure it worked.
>
> It seems the Plan9 itself doesn't recognize it.
> Doesn't recognize it directly into the USB nor the PS2.
>

Likely plan9.ini isn't set right (if the mouse is plugged into the ps2
port) or the mouse is plugged into the usb port. I don't remember the
correct syntax for plan9.ini, but it's something like mouse=3Dps2 - someb=
ody
correct me, please.
If the mouse is attached via usb, try running usb/usbd followed by
usb/usbmouse at the command line (should be the active window at boot
time). Then you'll want to put those lines in termrc (where is that any
way?)

> Are there hot keys to switch active windows (so to speak).
>
No.

> the glenda icon to its right whith the day, date, time above her
> and "glenda" below her.
>
That's the faces program

> a table of sorts with
>
> "Mail win Newcol Kill Putall Dump Exit"
> "New Cut Paste" - New Cut Paste Snarf Sort Zerox Delcol - New Cut Paste
> Sna
> /usr/glenda D - readme.acme Del Snarf | Look - /usr/glenda/- Del
>
acme.

> then
>
> a window saying
>
> "Rio is the Plan 9 window system."
> "To read more of htis window, the up and down arrows...
>
That is a shell window - scroll down, and you can run usb/usbd, etc. at
the prompt.

This is the default start-up screen layout.

Hope this helps,

--Joel