Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:38:27 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Carmel <carmel_ny@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Cut/Paste with USB mouse inoperative Message-ID: <20091110233827.0411a38f.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <BLU0-SMTP341668AC34216ED97C93E693AB0@phx.gbl> References: <BLU0-SMTP708AF49ADF1A3E2BD2F93C93AB0@phx.gbl> <20091110220325.865b20f3.freebsd@edvax.de> <BLU0-SMTP341668AC34216ED97C93E693AB0@phx.gbl>
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On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:13:12 -0500, Carmel <carmel_ny@hotmail.com> wrote: > 'X' has nothing to do with it. It fails to work both in and out of 'X'. > With the old mouse it worked fine. The moused program offers a diagnostics mode: # moused -f -d -p /dev/ums0 Maybe you can try this and see what really happens when you press the buttons? The -i option is interesting, too. > Way more trouble than it is worth. I might just go back to the old > mouse. Strangely enough, the new mouse works perfectly under Windows so > I know it is not broken. If it does work there, but not in FreeBSD, it might have a strangely constructed firmware which justifies the statement that it is "broken by design"... :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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