From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jul 14 15:56:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from laxmls02.socal.rr.com (laxmls02.socal.rr.com [24.30.163.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F7B637C0E5 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 15:56:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stephen@cerebralmaelstrom.com) Received: from Ryan (sc-24-160-53-72.socal.rr.com [24.160.53.72]) by laxmls02.socal.rr.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) with SMTP id e6EMuLw28597 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 15:56:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <012301bfede6$082ea980$0200a8c0@Ryan> From: "Stephen Hansen" To: Subject: Microsoft Intellimice? Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 15:51:22 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm in the process of preparing to install FreeBSD 4.0 (waiting happily for the cd/handbook to arrive from Walnut), which will be about the third time i've ended up using it .. In the past i've always ended up reverting to windows due to duel-booting frustrations.. Now, with two computers, I won't have that problem.. Whee! Congratulate me. *grin* Anyways. The computer i'm installing it on is a 400mhz P2 w/ 128megs of ram and a 10gig hdd. The graphics card is a STB Velocity. I don't forsee issues with any of the above, since it ran Mandrake fine for a brief period (... decided I was curious about all the linux hype, so tried it out.. personal opinion: why bother? :) ) My one big question is actually sort unimportant sounding: Can I use my Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer? :-) I /love/ it, dispite the company that makes it.. I believe wheelmice have support under X, but I couldn't get the old default mouse to work when I was using X under Mandrake.. and those Forward/Backwards buttons are rather nice.. though as long as I have my mouse and my wheel, I'll be happy. My understanding is that FreeBSD doesn't support USB mice -- am I right? If so, it will work with the USB-to-PS/2 converter, I hope? Beyond that -- what features of the mouse will work (or, more importantly, not work? ) Erm. I'm suddenly thinking that I should be sending this to some X list, and if its offtopic, I apologize, lots.. Just scream and flog and i'll go send it to someone who's interested. :) Thanks in advance for any help. --Stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message