Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 18:58:05 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Sarah Woolley <sarah@ironicallyyours.org>, chip wiegand <chip@wiegand.org> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: wireless optical mouse useable in freebsd? Message-ID: <200212251858.05975.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <20021225155019.B4439-100000@tautology.org> References: <20021225114204.330bcf4f.chip@wiegand.org> <20021225155019.B4439-100000@tautology.org>
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On Wednesday 25 December 2002 03:51 pm, Sarah Woolley wrote: > My wireless optical mouse works, but it's not made my microsoft.=20 > Don't know if it makes a difference, but you could just try it and > see if it works. Yes, you should have done that before you sent your first email :). Now=20 that we are all wasting bandwidth, I don't think your computer can tell=20 the difference between a wireless and a normal mouse. I have Microsoft=20 opticals on two that work on the ps/2 port and one that is hooked up to=20 the usb port. The roller scrolls through text on all of them. You have=20 to setup your mouse in XF86Config to do that. Having purchased several optical mice I will probably replace the=20 remaining one that has a ball. The new one will be wireless. A wireless=20 keyboard/mouse combo was going to be my Christmas purchase but they=20 were all sold out. I bought a Soundblaster Audigy instead. MP3=20 conversions of my audio CDs using digital extraction sound cleaner than=20 wav's from the analog side. The wireless mouse would have been better.=20 I needed 6 hours of parallel processing to reconvert my Spanish audio=20 CDs. Kent > > On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, chip wiegand wrote: > > I just received this micro$oft wireless optical mouse for christmas > > from my son, and am wondering if anyone knows if it will work in > > freebsd 4.7? I haven't tried it yet. It is both usb and ps2. > > Thanks, > > Chip W > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message --=20 Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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