From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Feb 6 15:35:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA24063 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 15:35:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA24034 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 15:35:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA06674; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 00:35:11 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA26813; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 00:35:10 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id AAA02543; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 00:11:23 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199602062311.AAA02543@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Mice To: jeff@stat.uconn.edu (Jeffrey M. Metcalf) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 00:11:22 +0100 (MET) Cc: bugs@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <9602061644.AA10449@ruddles.stat.uconn.edu> from "Jeffrey M. Metcalf" at Feb 6, 96 11:44:27 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)