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From: "Beauford" <beauford.2002@rogers.com>
To: "'Nick Lozinsky'" <nl3481@wi.rr.com>,
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Subject: RE: Mouse Problems
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 19:57:25 -0700
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I figured people would look at my other email so I didn't include any
details here, but this is just a simple MS Mouse (not USB - although
that one does not work either). My keyboard being toast was a problem on
it's own and doesn't appear to have had anything to do with the mouse
problem.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Lozinsky [mailto:nl3481@wi.rr.com] 
> Sent: April 8, 2002 12:12 PM
> To: Beauford; FreeBSD
> Subject: Re: Mouse Problems
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Beauford" <beauford.2002@rogers.com>
> To: "FreeBSD" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 5:03 PM
> Subject: Mouse Problems
> 
> 
> > I posted a question earlier regarding mouse problems, and 
> concluded it 
> > was my keyboard that was the problem. Well, that wasn't the 
> case. My 
> > keyboard was toast and my mouse did start working when I 
> replaced the 
> > keyboard, but today it's back to the same thing (actually, it comes 
> > and goes). I messed around for a couple of hours and nothing, so I 
> > decided to install Slackware 8 to test to see if it worked 
> there, and 
> > as I thought, there were no problems. It works fine on the 
> console as 
> > well as X. I'd like to use FreeBSD and learn more about it, but not 
> > being able to use a mouse doesn't give me much confidence, cause I 
> > really can't believe it can be this hard to get a simple 
> mouse to work 
> > in FreeBSD.
> >
> > Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
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> 
> What kind of mose is it? How did you install it? USB? Serial?
> 
> If it is connected through your keyboard, Im assuming its 
> USB. I dont know if there are different devices for USB 
> peripherals, but using PS/2 or any other mose, would use the 
> serial device in /dev or the /dev/mouse or something like 
> that. Please elaborate.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 



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