From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 24 22:32: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B71FB37B42C for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 22:32:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e7P5Vwv06527; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 22:31:58 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 22:31:58 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Gary Kline Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mouse question.... Message-ID: <20000824223158.J1209@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <200008250449.VAA05812@tao.thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <200008250449.VAA05812@tao.thought.org>; from kline@thought.org on Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 09:49:43PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Gary Kline [000824 21:50] wrote: > > Hi, Y'all, > > This is a long shot, but here goes. --On my other FBSD system > which is as 4.0, the mouse won't work. A friend just checked > the hardware ports, switched the mouse from COM1 to COM2. (COM2 > or, in the case of my modem, /dev/cuaa1, is working.) Zip; > nothing. He tried the mouse on this system on the other. Again, > nothinng. He thinks that in my upgrading to 4.0, part of my > mouse software may have been hosed. > > Any suggestions how I can diagnose the software side of this? > > I'm stumped. It's possible that there's a switch somewhere on the mouse that makes it go from "microsoft" to "mousesystems" try toggling the switch and alternating between moused settings for "microsoft" and "mousesystems". Some mice have the switch but "mousesystems" doesn't seem to work properly, so your best bet is to try both toggles with moused set as "microsoft", once you get that working you may want to try the other position and "mousesystems" in order to get use of your third button if you have one. If your mouse doesn't have a toggle... well then save this for future reference. :) -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message