From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Feb 4 21:32:23 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D23BF37B401 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 21:32:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from spork.pantherdragon.org (spork.pantherdragon.org [206.29.168.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6043943F3F for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 21:32:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dmp@pantherdragon.org) Received: from sparx.techno.pagans (12-224-208-117.client.attbi.com [12.224.208.117]) by spork.pantherdragon.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E08C41005F; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 21:32:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from pantherdragon.org (speck.techno.pagans [172.21.42.2]) by sparx.techno.pagans (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F470AB6A; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 21:32:18 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3E40A1E2.80502@pantherdragon.org> Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 21:32:18 -0800 From: Darren Pilgrim User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Cc: freebsd-newbies Subject: Re: optical mouse References: <3E41BB3F.1040309@shadow.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dave wrote: > Hello, > > I've been using FreeBSD 4.7 for about 3 months and I wanted to upgrade my > current mouse to an optical mouse. > > I tried out a GE Optical Mouse (PS2 connection)due to that fact that it > stated that it didn't require a Windows system for basic operation. > > I attempted to use the automatic mouse function in XFree864.0 and it > won't recognize the mouse at all. It will move slightly when set to > Microsoft Optical mouse, meaning just a little bit on the right hand > side, but it won't cross the screen, nor will it recognize any of the > buttons. > > Has anyone managed to get an optical mouse (hopefully a GE Optical mouse) > to work with FreeBSD ? Yes, I have a simple Logitech Optical mouse working (two buttons with wheel) just fine. I've found the only mice that I can reliably get to work are PS/2 and PS/2-compatible USB Logitech mice. There's a LOT of documentation floating around for getting even the new ones like the MX700 working fully under X. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message