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From: dfeustel@mindspring.com
To: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org>
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Date: Sat,  7 Jun 2008 17:43:03 +0000 (UTC)
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0 Suddenly Dead mouse
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On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 01:18:07PM -0400, Gary Palmer wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 04:09:15PM +0000, dfeustel@mindspring.com wrote:
> > My optical mouse has suddenly died for the 2nd time in both kde and X on
> > a new computer running 64-bit AMD FreeBSD 7.0. This is the second time
> > this mouse has died this way (last time was when I was using the mouse
> > on a different AMD 64-bit computer running X/kde onOpenBSD). Cycling
> > power and rebooting the computer does not revive the mouse.
> > 
> > Assuming (dangerous, I know :-) ) that the mouse is not broken, where in
> > the X code might the mouse be 'turned off' and how, (if that has been
> > done) would I turn it back on?
> > 
> > Also, is there a way to simulate the mouse commands using the keyboard
> > when the mouse becomes catatonic? I hate to have to keep using
> > ctl-alt-bksp to abort X.
> 
> I cannot answer the "turned off" question, but if you have a keyboard
> with a numlock key and a numeric keypad, pressing SHIFT-NUMLOCK
> will turn the keypad into a low quality mouse.  8 moves the pointer up,
> 2 moves it down, etc.  Pressing SHIFT-NUMLOCK again disables the feature.
> 
> At least on my system, the system speaker beeps when you toggle
> the feature.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Gary

Thanks for this info! It works. Is there also a way to simulate clicking the
mouse buttons?