From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 18 4:45:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bong.andmann.eu.org (world.peace.is [194.144.170.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B7B737B422 for ; Fri, 18 May 2001 04:45:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andmann@bong.andmann.eu.org) Received: (from andmann@localhost) by bong.andmann.eu.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f4IBi4J02023; Fri, 18 May 2001 11:44:04 GMT Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 11:44:04 +0000 From: "David S. Geirsson" To: Doug Young Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PS/2 troubles Message-ID: <20010518114404.B1096@bong.andmann.eu.org> References: <20010517093255.A1072@bong.andmann.eu.org> <0c0201c0dedf$5d4489e0$0300a8c0@oracle> <20010517150549.C1072@bong.andmann.eu.org> <0c2901c0dee3$a2a83910$0300a8c0@oracle> <20010518091539.A1096@bong.andmann.eu.org> <11a701c0df8e$65bb55e0$0300a8c0@oracle> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <11a701c0df8e$65bb55e0$0300a8c0@oracle>; from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au on Fri, May 18, 2001 at 09:33:44PM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG No, serial mice work fine, it's just PS/2 mice that don't (external ones too). Obviously, I could just carry around a serial mouse everywhere I go, but that's not really the bes solution I can think of for a laptop. Anyway, thanks for your help. On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 09:33:44PM +1000, Doug Young wrote: > > > > Yeah, didn't see anything about non-standard PS/2 controllers. I > actually > > would think this one was pretty standard, linux finds it without any > > specific driver compiled in, so did BeOS. > > > > There was a guy from Adelaide (OZ) recently having humungous laptop > install problems, although that was something to do with a parallel > port > network adaptor. Lots of proprietory systems exhibit weird "features" > though & seems yours isn't any different. I think you said you even > have > problems with regular serial mouse too ... if thats the case I'd be > looking > for some common "built in a backyard" box to install FreeBSD on > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Davíð Steinn Geirsson andmann@andmann.eu.org (354)-8696608 "Support staff hung over, Send aspirin and come back LATER." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message