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Date:      Sat, 12 Jan 2002 19:29:52 -0500
From:      Dylan Carlson <absinthe@pobox.com>
To:        Scott Robbins <scottro@nyc.rr.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Logitech MouseMan Dual Optical
Message-ID:  <E16PYX3-0007TK-00@swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020112165913.20e8b60a.scottro@nyc.rr.com>
References:  <E16PUub-0004Oi-00@scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net> <20020112165913.20e8b60a.scottro@nyc.rr.com>

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On Saturday 12 January 2002 16:59, Scott Robbins wrote:

> KVM's with FreeBSD seem to be, judging from my experience and searching
> deja, problematic.  Recompiling with the oxsomething00 flag works for some
> people, didn't for me. However, I ~have~ found that as long as I have the
> KVM focused on the BSD box from bootup through starting X, everything is
> fine, including switching away from that box and back to it.  This holds
> for a fairly good ASUS MB and lowend SIS MB and lowend Dlink KVM switch
> with MS Optical and lowend but fast Sis MB with Belkin Omnipro and
> Logictech optical
>
> Scott Robbins

I'm using a Belkin OmniView SE 4-port ... works without hassles -- assuming 
you don't kick the power on it by accident.  If you do, you lose your mouse 
entirely and have to restart X... and this is true for Windows too.   After 
doing this about 20 times one week, I superglued the power plug into the KVM 
and tie-wrapped the powersupply to the power strip.

The mouse seems to work fine though I wish XFree supported the mouse wheel 
under FreeBSD like it does Linux.

In switching from the MouseMan Optical to the Mousman Dual Optical, I had to 
crank the mouse acceleration in KDE down to 1x, or as I say, it was too jumpy.

In general, this Dual Optical does not perform as well as the basic Logitech 
optical mouse.  It still acts weird from time to time.  The pointer will jump 
around occasionally.   

Unless you're buying this to get better performance under Windows (for Quake 
or whatever), I'd say go for the cheaper single optical model.  My $.02.

-- 
Dylan Carlson [absinthe@pobox.com]

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