Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 00:11:22 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: jeff@stat.uconn.edu (Jeffrey M. Metcalf) Cc: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mice Message-ID: <199602062311.AAA02543@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <9602061644.AA10449@ruddles.stat.uconn.edu> from "Jeffrey M. Metcalf" at Feb 6, 96 11:44:27 am
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As Jeffrey M. Metcalf wrote: > > This is in reference to my earlier e-mail. If you feel I must get a new > mouse to run under X, could you tell me the brands of mice that have no > problems running with the GENERIC kernel (or if I must customize the > kernel, which mice work perfectly). All kinds of mice that plug into a serial port. The most common among them speak the MouseSystems protocol (also known as ``PC mouse'' protocol), and come with three buttons. They should work fairly well with everything else that might run on a PeeCee. There's no easy fix for the PS/2 mouse problem, since it's rather a problem of how the current drivers are layered. PS/2 mice are, from a hardware point of view, ``just another keyboard'', connected to the very same keyboard controller. However, their output is not handled by a uniform keyboard driver, instead being dispatched to either the console or the PS/2 mouse driver. This works for many situations, but for machines where it doesn't work, chances for a quick fix are low. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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