Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 23:48:56 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sun mouse on FreeBSD...? Message-ID: <20000716234856.A526@freebie.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <200007162131.QAA39276@aurora.sol.net>; from jgreco@ns.sol.net on Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 04:31:25PM -0500 References: <200007162131.QAA39276@aurora.sol.net>
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On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 04:31:25PM -0500, Joe Greco wrote: > I was disappointed to find out that Mouse Systems seems to be out of > business. > > Has anyone hacked up a Sun optical mouse to work with FreeBSD? > > The electronics shouldn't be difficult, but I was wondering if someone had > hacks to make moused understand the Sun mouse protocol. I seem to recall > it as being fairly simple... There are converters who do it the other way around: PS/2 mouse to Sun. So I suppose it cannot be too difficult to translate one into the other (all 'mouse beeps' born equal? ;-). I don't have details on how it is done though. You might want to try http://www.sunhelp.org -- Wilko Bulte http://www.freebsd.org wilko@freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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