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Subject: Re: Dead mouse (actually I guess it's spasmodic)
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 15:54:40 -0700
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yes same experience with my trackball mouse someone just gave me as a 
present.

I have no solution.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 3:16 PM
Subject: Dead mouse (actually I guess it's spasmodic)


> I just bought a PC Concepts optical mouse and it works fine on Windows
> 98, but it fails to be usable with FreeBSD. I tried all of the
> protocol options offered by sysinstall and all (except "auto") worked
> the same. The mouse would move normally up and to the right, but any
> movement down or to the left resulted in the cursor moving to the
> bottom or left edge o the screen.
> 
> "Auto" was stranger with the mouse jumping around wildly and parts of
> the syscons going to inverse video plus random characters appearing
> on the screen.
> 
> Since it simply works on Windows (no software changes), I am baffled
> that it fails so miserably under FreeBSD. Has anyone seen this? Any
> fix/work-around?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
> Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
> Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
> E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
> 
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