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Date:      Thu, 18 Jun 1998 09:10:14 -0400
From:      Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com>
To:        sos@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        nirva@ishiboo.com, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: X-10 Mouse Remote patch
Message-ID:  <19980618091014.A5523@ct.picker.com>
In-Reply-To: <199806181306.PAA22009@sos.freebsd.dk>; from Sren Schmidt on Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 03:06:36PM %2B0200
References:  <19980618083321.B5383@ct.picker.com> <199806181306.PAA22009@sos.freebsd.dk>

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Sren Schmidt:
 |I didn't mean RF problems or anything with the X-10 hardware, but having
 |it communicate TOGETHER with the mouse is a real bad idea, to put it
 |on the PS/2 mouse port is insane, that is the crappy enginnering I'm
 |talking about (I wouldn't even call it engineering)....

Can't speak to the PS/2 mouse port issue.  My serial mouse is running
pass-though though the MouseRemote.

 |And it has NO business in moused whatsoever, its a hack and it doesn't
 |belong there. I'm sorry I havn't noticed this before, but its should be
 |ripped out ASAP, I would never have allowed it in there if I had
 |found out before. 

So far I have yet to hear what about it is a hack.  The device is designed
to save you from having to take up another valueable serial port with the
remote.  It has mouse buttons on the back and a togglewheel on the front
which can function as a mouse as well, so you don't even need to connect it
up to another mouse for it to function as one.

Randall

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