Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 22:17:59 -0500 From: bobmc <bobmc@bobmc.net> To: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Hairy Cats and mice and FreeBSD Message-ID: <45B2DB67.4070208@bobmc.net> In-Reply-To: <20070120100322.747bc208@tania.servebbs.org> References: <20070120100322.747bc208@tania.servebbs.org>
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Bob wrote: > > Hi: > > I Live with a very hairy, large, Main Coon cat called Tania; she sheds > tons of fine hair all over the place. She is a Mouser, and proudly rids > our home (a boat) of all sorts of mice. Unfortunately she also kills > Computer mice! Therein lies my problem. > > I have been replacing mechanical mice at the rate of one per month, by > just going to the local radio shack and buying one of their cheapest > PS2 mice, and replacing the hair-locked-up one. > > Recently. RS has cheapened their mouse design, so the inner rollers are > now about 1/2 the diameter of the old ones. This "modification" has > limited a mouse's life here to about one week! > > What I want to do is replace this mechanical mouse with an optical > mouse. RadioShack sells one, with the proper Windowz driver. I am > running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10 #2 however! > > If I go to Radio Shack, and buy their optical mouse, will I be able to > configure it to work with my KDE/FreeBSD system? This device is not > cheap! > > Anyone with experience using their optical mouse under FreeBSD? All > input will be very much appreciated. > > Mouse-less on the Atlantic > Bob > > I have a Microsoft Optical Intellimouse for PS/2 or USB. It works fine except for the scroll-wheel. But I have not got around to configuring X to make it work. I doubt if FreeBSD cares which mouse you have. The mouse has a tiny hole in the bottom which gathers hair. It can be removed with a puff of breath. I also use a mechanical keyboard which can be cleaned. Don't bother trying to clean hairballs from these rubber-mat keyboards. Oh, the mouse is listed at $31.99 on tigerdirect.ca -BobMc-
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