Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 22:43:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Hechinger <wonko@users.tmok.com> To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Subject: FW: Sun mice (fwd) Message-ID: <200006040243.WAA73326@entropy.tmok.com>
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> <refraining from laughter j/k> > > You mean a mouse with a ball as opposed to an optical mouse? > - then the earliest? and the latest of the sparc mice are non-optical and > can be found from most workstation providers as well as ebay. I may even > have a spare one around (I prefer the optical mouse). > If you mean the scroll controlling wheel, I have yet to see one > myself. However I know belkin? and some other KVM switch makers have > sparc adapters for there KVM switches, you can try that (Expensive to > just test imho) If that does work using a normal PS2 type mouse with scroll > wheel, just have to configure the X on the sun box to utilize the wheel, > assuming of course the KVM doesn't have to parse that info out for compat > or something. > > Hope it helps a little, > -Kevin i have one of those Belkin things but i don't have a PS/2 keyboard. i'll grab a keyboard from work on monday and try it out on my SS-5 and post the results here. i'll do what i can to see if i can get the wheel working, rxvt has built in support for the wheel, but i had to put an option into the XF86Config file, but i don't know if i'll be able to get OpenWin to work with it. i would assume it should be possible since we have a sun ultra clone at work that has ps/2 connectors on it, but i never plugged a mouse with a wheel into it. hmm, i'll let you all know monday night after i get home from work. -brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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