Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 12:21:47 -0500 From: "Stephanie Bridges" <sbridges@iastate.edu> To: "'Lennon Cook'" <maguswizardo@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Problem with cordless mouse/Keyboard combo set Message-ID: <010501c672c3$e2e7a960$0c20ba81@econ.iastate.edu> In-Reply-To: <76ebe6440605051707m2f07cfaauaf17adaabeda9148@mail.gmail.com>
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Lennon Cook wrote: > Stephanie Bridges <sbridges@iastate.edu> wrote: >> I had the same problem with the mouse (would occasionally move the >> cursor, never any clicks) until I accidentally got the receiver >> closer to the mouse. I now have the receiver about three inches >> away from the mouse. Works wonderfully well now. > Thanks Stephanie, but unfortunately that didn't help here. I > have moved my receiver so close to the mouse that its hard to > not bump them, but the mouse still doesn't work. > > What I have noticed since I sent my original message, is that > /dev/sysmouse exists even when only the non-working mouse is > connected nto the system. Does this mean that FreeBSD /is/ > detecting the mouse (and hence that I should be looking > somewhere else than this list for the problem), or does that > file simply always exist? Lennon, Do you have a /dev/ums0 (my usb mouse device)? Also, even when my mouse didn't really work, disconnecting/reconnecting the receiver from the usb port (moving to another or leaving in the same port) would generate log messages that the mouse was being recognized correctly. I was assuming that /dev/sysmouse would only exist if the system thought there was a mouse somewhere, but I'm not sure about that. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Stephanie Bridges Economics Department -- Iowa State University 80B Heady Hall, Ames, IA 50011 ph: 515.294.8732 ~~ fax: 515.294.0221 http://www.econ.iastate.edu
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