From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 16 14:49: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C517D37B845 for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 14:48:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.demon.nl) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 13DwHR-0004RF-00; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 21:48:57 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA00540; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 23:48:56 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 23:48:56 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Joe Greco Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sun mouse on FreeBSD...? Message-ID: <20000716234856.A526@freebie.demon.nl> Reply-To: wilko@freebsd.org References: <200007162131.QAA39276@aurora.sol.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200007162131.QAA39276@aurora.sol.net>; from jgreco@ns.sol.net on Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 04:31:25PM -0500 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 04:31:25PM -0500, Joe Greco wrote: > I was disappointed to find out that Mouse Systems seems to be out of > business. > > Has anyone hacked up a Sun optical mouse to work with FreeBSD? > > The electronics shouldn't be difficult, but I was wondering if someone had > hacks to make moused understand the Sun mouse protocol. I seem to recall > it as being fairly simple... There are converters who do it the other way around: PS/2 mouse to Sun. So I suppose it cannot be too difficult to translate one into the other (all 'mouse beeps' born equal? ;-). I don't have details on how it is done though. You might want to try http://www.sunhelp.org -- Wilko Bulte http://www.freebsd.org wilko@freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message