On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 10:31:58PM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [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... .
--
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