Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 14:12:02 -0500 From: "Nick Lozinsky" <nl3481@wi.rr.com> To: "Beauford" <beauford.2002@rogers.com>, "FreeBSD" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Mouse Problems Message-ID: <004201c1df31$4382ed50$93611f41@boggy> References: <002101c1df49$4926f0e0$6401a8c0@p1>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Beauford" <beauford.2002@rogers.com> To: "FreeBSD" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 5:03 PM Subject: Mouse Problems > I posted a question earlier regarding mouse problems, and concluded it > was my keyboard that was the problem. Well, that wasn't the case. My > keyboard was toast and my mouse did start working when I replaced the > keyboard, but today it's back to the same thing (actually, it comes and > goes). I messed around for a couple of hours and nothing, so I decided > to install Slackware 8 to test to see if it worked there, and as I > thought, there were no problems. It works fine on the console as well as > X. I'd like to use FreeBSD and learn more about it, but not being able > to use a mouse doesn't give me much confidence, cause I really can't > believe it can be this hard to get a simple mouse to work in FreeBSD. > > Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions. > > Thanks > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message What kind of mose is it? How did you install it? USB? Serial? If it is connected through your keyboard, Im assuming its USB. I dont know if there are different devices for USB peripherals, but using PS/2 or any other mose, would use the serial device in /dev or the /dev/mouse or something like that. Please elaborate. Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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