From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 26 10:19:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gus33.homeip.net (hybrid-024-221-140-147.az.sprintbbd.net [24.221.140.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD74437B479 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 10:19:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (kdavey@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gus33.homeip.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id KAA16117; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 10:02:02 -0700 Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 10:02:02 -0700 (MST) From: Keith Davey To: Jim Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Optical MS Intelimouse and X In-Reply-To: <20001026095725.A23895@elwood.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Jim wrote: > Not sure if this is the answer you are looking for, but this is what I > did. > > I used the PS/2 adapter. I never got the two side buttons to work, but > then again I really did not put effort into it. Hopefully you might > get a better answer then that. > > What is the difference between using it as a USB device or a PS/2? > What advantage would you get by using it as USB? It may sound silly, and may even be a complete inacuracy on my part, however I am trying to utilize my ISA bus as little as possable. As a matter of fact I am working to be ISA free. Basicly I am hoping this will improve system performance overall. Like I said, I could be completely off base here. Keith Davey > > On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 07:24:48AM -0700, Keith Davey wrote: > > Hello. > > > > Quick question. I picked up a USB/PS2 MS Optical Intelimouse. I have > > elected to use it as a USB device but am having some difficulty getting it > > to work under X. (3.3.6). > > > > I used XSetup86 and hand entered the port at /dev/ums0. This is allowing > > my to move the curser with no problems, however dispite trying almost > > every protocal available I can not get any on the buttons to work. Anyone > > have any expereance with this? > > > > Keith Davey > > kdavey@gus33.homeip.net > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > Jim O'Gorman > jameso@elwood.net > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message