From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 5 17:25:28 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA19493 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 17:25:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA19486 for ; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 17:25:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from lot.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@lot.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.106]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA12049; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 11:54:46 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199901051615.JAA04090@mt.sri.com> Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 11:55:33 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Nate Williams Subject: Re: psm0 on laptops. Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Darren Reed Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 05-Jan-99 Nate Williams wrote: > Not that I'm aware of. If you have it plugged in to the PS/2 port, you > *can* switch to the serial version after bootup by physically switching > it and re-configured X to use the serial port version. Use moused and tell X to use sysmouse, thats why its there. Then X gets events from both mice :) > The reason it works under Windblows is because the mouse driver is a > necessary part of the OS, and under FreeBSD it's just another device so > the OS/userland stuff isn't integrated like under Windows. (Which also > explains why unix is generally more robust, since not everything is > integrated together with the OS...) Its still a pitty you can't tell the psm driver to reprobe the mouse... --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message