Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 11:55:33 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> Subject: Re: psm0 on laptops. Message-ID: <XFMail.990106115533.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199901051615.JAA04090@mt.sri.com>
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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
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