Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 12:30:48 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mouse question.... Message-ID: <39A6C968.C77BBB15@urx.com> References: <200008250449.VAA05812@tao.thought.org> <20000824223158.J1209@fw.wintelcom.net> <20000825101432.B10594@tao.thought.org>
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Gary Kline wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 10:31:58PM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > * Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> [000824 21:50] wrote: > > > > > > Hi, Y'all, > > > > > > This is a long shot, but here goes. --On my other FBSD system > > > which is as 4.0, the mouse won't work. A friend just checked > > > the hardware ports, switched the mouse from COM1 to COM2. (COM2 > > > or, in the case of my modem, /dev/cuaa1, is working.) Zip; > > > nothing. He tried the mouse on this system on the other. Again, > > > nothinng. He thinks that in my upgrading to 4.0, part of my > > > mouse software may have been hosed. > > > > > > Any suggestions how I can diagnose the software side of this? > > > > > > I'm stumped. > > > > It's possible that there's a switch somewhere on the mouse that makes > > it go from "microsoft" to "mousesystems" try toggling the switch > > and alternating between moused settings for "microsoft" and > > "mousesystems". > > > > Some mice have the switch but "mousesystems" doesn't seem to work > > properly, so your best bet is to try both toggles with moused set > > as "microsoft", once you get that working you may want to try > > the other position and "mousesystems" in order to get use of your > > third button if you have one. > > > > If your mouse doesn't have a toggle... well then save this for future > > reference. :) > > > > The mouse (Belkin? or something like that) has a switch > between "Microsoft" and "PS2"; we didn't try the PS2 > but the "Microsoft" setting definitely failed. > > The mouse on this box is that works here wouldn't work on > the other FBSD computer. > > gary > > PS: It occurs to me to rcp over the /etc/XF86Config from here > make the X -> link and try again with this mouse. Didn't think > of that last night... . Did you use an adapter to connect from ps/2 to serial. No all adapters are created equal :). Only the one that came with the mouse has worked for me. Kent > > -- > Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service Unix > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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