Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:40:11 -0500 From: Carmel <carmel_ny@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cut/Paste with USB mouse inoperative Message-ID: <BLU0-SMTP221B9C21C0F9429CF07DFB93AA0@phx.gbl>
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On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:38:27 +0100 Polytropon Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> replied: >On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:13:12 -0500, Carmel <carmel_ny@hotmail.com> >wrote: >> 'X' has nothing to do with it. It fails to work both in and out of >> 'X'. With the old mouse it worked fine. > >The moused program offers a diagnostics mode: > > # moused -f -d -p /dev/ums0 Well, the results of that test does not exactly exhilarate me. # moused -f -d -p /dev/ums0 moused: unable to open /dev/ums0: Device busy >Maybe you can try this and see what really happens when you >press the buttons? The -i option is interesting, too. > >> Way more trouble than it is worth. I might just go back to the old >> mouse. Strangely enough, the new mouse works perfectly under Windows >> so I know it is not broken. > >If it does work there, but not in FreeBSD, it might have a >strangely constructed firmware which justifies the statement >that it is "broken by design"... :-) A common problem in today's society. It reminds me of an old adage: Just like with unexploded bombs, Blame is best dealt with by passing it as quickly as possible to someone else. -- Carmel carmel_ny@hotmail.com |::::======= |::::======= |=========== |=========== | If everything on the road of life seems to be coming your way, you are in the wrong lane.
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