Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 15:54:40 -0700 From: "freebsd" <george@vagner.com> To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> Subject: Re: Dead mouse (actually I guess it's spasmodic) Message-ID: <003501c1c561$ed91cee0$0400a8c0@thunderbird> References: <20020306221611.277245D06@ptavv.es.net>
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yes same experience with my trackball mouse someone just gave me as a present. I have no solution. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 3:16 PM Subject: Dead mouse (actually I guess it's spasmodic) > I just bought a PC Concepts optical mouse and it works fine on Windows > 98, but it fails to be usable with FreeBSD. I tried all of the > protocol options offered by sysinstall and all (except "auto") worked > the same. The mouse would move normally up and to the right, but any > movement down or to the left resulted in the cursor moving to the > bottom or left edge o the screen. > > "Auto" was stranger with the mouse jumping around wildly and parts of > the syscons going to inverse video plus random characters appearing > on the screen. > > Since it simply works on Windows (no software changes), I am baffled > that it fails so miserably under FreeBSD. Has anyone seen this? Any > fix/work-around? > > Thanks, > > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) > Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) > E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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