From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 25 10:14:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCBFA37B423 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 10:14:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tao.thought.org (tao.sea.tera.com [207.108.223.55]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA11176; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 10:14:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.9.3/8.7.3) id KAA10736; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 10:14:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 10:14:32 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Gary Kline , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mouse question.... Message-ID: <20000825101432.B10594@tao.thought.org> References: <200008250449.VAA05812@tao.thought.org> <20000824223158.J1209@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000824223158.J1209@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 10:31:58PM -0700 X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 10:31:58PM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * 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. :) > The mouse (Belkin? or something like that) has a switch between "Microsoft" and "PS2"; we didn't try the PS2 but the "Microsoft" setting definitely failed. The mouse on this box is that works here wouldn't work on the other FBSD computer. gary PS: It occurs to me to rcp over the /etc/XF86Config from here make the X -> link and try again with this mouse. Didn't think of that last night... . -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message