From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 20 15:03:45 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D96DD16A405 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 15:03:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bob@tamara-b.org) Received: from mail3.panix.com (mail3.panix.com [166.84.1.74]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94F7E13C465 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 15:03:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bob@tamara-b.org) Received: from mailspool3.panix.com (mailspool3.panix.com [166.84.1.78]) by mail3.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7ABF13A866 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:03:39 -0500 (EST) Received: from tania.servebbs.org (pool-71-247-58-125.nycmny.east.verizon.net [71.247.58.125]) by mailspool3.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6109D3A162 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:03:37 -0500 (EST) Received: from tania.servebbs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tania.servebbs.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l0KF3ZKq028111 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:03:41 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bob@tamara-b.org) Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:03:22 -0500 From: Bob To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070120100322.747bc208@tania.servebbs.org> Organization: Tamara B X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.6.1 (GTK+ 2.10.6; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_3XTYYG1eib+uKW4F.+NaxoI; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (tania.servebbs.org [0.0.0.0]); Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:03:41 -0500 (EST) X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=UNPARSEABLE_RELAY autolearn=ham version=3.1.7 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on tania.servebbs.org Subject: Hairy Cats and mice and FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 15:03:45 -0000 --Sig_3XTYYG1eib+uKW4F.+NaxoI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =20 Hi: I Live with a very hairy, large, Main Coon cat called Tania; she sheds tons of fine hair all over the place. She is a Mouser, and proudly rids our home (a boat) of all sorts of mice. Unfortunately she also kills Computer mice! Therein lies my problem. I have been replacing mechanical mice at the rate of one per month, by just going to the local radio shack and buying one of their cheapest PS2 mice, and replacing the hair-locked-up one. Recently. RS has cheapened their mouse design, so the inner rollers are now about 1/2 the diameter of the old ones. This "modification" has limited a mouse's life here to about one week! =20 What I want to do is replace this mechanical mouse with an optical mouse. RadioShack sells one, with the proper Windowz driver. I am running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10 #2 however!=20 =20 If I go to Radio Shack, and buy their optical mouse, will I be able to configure it to work with my KDE/FreeBSD system? This device is not cheap!=20 =20 Anyone with experience using their optical mouse under FreeBSD? All input will be very much appreciated. =20 Mouse-less on the Atlantic Bob --=20 /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign - Motor Vessel Tamara B X against HTML email & vCards - http://www.tamara-b.org / \ --Sig_3XTYYG1eib+uKW4F.+NaxoI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFsi9HqEJbgtZS/7MRAo+ZAKCCS415KTegdXR+Ju1Sdv+VRZO61gCfbCUe gHoSHDV+09tevFdUDqVadkU= =KRI9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_3XTYYG1eib+uKW4F.+NaxoI--