On Friday 03 December 2004 12:47 pm, mike wrote: > About a month ago I downloaded and installed FreeBSD on a junk computer > I had laying here and man I was impressed! I mean it installed so > quickly I couldn't believe it had installed properly. When I rebooted I > was seriously exepecting alot of errors, but it ran just fine. As time > went on I kept reinstalling it and reinstalling apache, mysql, php, > etc.. just to get the hang of it. I am a huge fan of BSD now because its > so simple. So just 2 days ago I decided it was time to install the > latest release ( 5.2.1 I think.) So I got it installed and it all went > as expected, up until the mouse part. This is where I always run into > some problems, but with FreeBSD its like I am in a shoebox under 10 ft > of sand. I just can't seem to get it working! Its really disappointing > because I am so ready to throw my XP cd into a brick wall! Ok enough of > my ranting I suppose I will tell the poor soul reading this my specs. > > System is a HP Pavilion ze4430us Laptop > AMD 2400XP Mobile > 512 DDR 266 > 40 GB Drive ( 20GB For Windows / 10 For Media / 10 For FreeBSD) > National Semiconducter On board 10/100 Network > 802.11b/g On Board Wireless ( Not concerned bout that right now) > Has a touchpad that I am not using at this point. > Logitech MX700 Duo / USB > > I cannot get the mouse to work for nothing. I have plugged it into the > USB port, tried using the PS/2 pigtail deal, nothing. > > I have tried: > moused -t auto -p /dev/sysmouse > > moused -t auto -p /dev/usm0 > > moused -t auto -p /dev/psm0 > > None returned Errors, None work. dmesg shows that the kernel recognizes > my Logitech receiver, keyboard, and mouse, but the mouse does not work > at all. Keyboard works but if I type fast then I get some weird stuff > going on. It seems like it throws out the character I typed half a > second ago out a again? I am getting discouraged again and I would > really like someones opinion on what I should do! I don't want to go out > and get another keyboard and mouse because this set is awesome, its just > BSD that don't like me. Sorry for a long post, but my blood pressure is > getting higher and higher with each failing attempt! > Apply the patch that I submitted to the following PR. It's a hack, but it will work until a correct fix is ready. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/63837 -- Anish Mistry
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