From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jan 4 20: 4: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from w250.z064001178.sjc-ca.dsl.cnc.net (w250.z064001178.sjc-ca.dsl.cnc.net [64.1.178.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9A3D637B41A for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 20:04:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 90386 invoked by uid 1000); 5 Jan 2002 04:04:25 -0000 Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 20:04:03 -0800 From: Jos Backus To: Greg Lehey Cc: Edwin Culp , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Logitech Cordless Mouseman Optical mouse works in PS/2 mode? Message-ID: <20020105040425.GB90171@lizzy.bugworks.com> Reply-To: Jos Backus References: <20020104054408.GC500@lizzy.bugworks.com> <1039012098.3dee1102aeced@Mail.SavvyWorld.Net> <20020104175710.GB429@lizzy.bugworks.com> <20020105141146.D24766@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020105141146.D24766@wantadilla.lemis.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 02:11:46PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > I've had one of these for 18 months now. I've never seen the connect > LED light up. That's right, I don't think there is one :-) It just looked like there was a LED in there. > Note that things go *really* funny when the batteries die, which > happens about every 6 months. It's attached to my wife's WinXP system now; I guess I'll find out when the time arrives. 6 months sounds pretty decent. In retrospect the Cordless Optical Mouse (the non-Mouseman version) would probably have been a better buy: it's $20 cheaper, lighter and slightly smaller. Oh well. > Can you get the thumb button to work? So far nobody has been able to tell > me how. Sorry, I haven't tried any of this but it looks relevant: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/xwin/xmouse.html (the section ``Putting Side Buttons To Work'') Cheers, -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ Santa Clara, CA _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ josb@cncdsl.com _/_/ _/_/_/ use Std::Disclaimer; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message