On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 15:45:15 -0700 "Justin Lindberg" <justin.lindb...@gmail.com> wrote: > I recently bought a Microsoft Wireless Mobile Mouse 3500, and I assumed > it would work like most any other mouse on OpenBSD. Unfortunately it > did not. After googling, I found a patch on the following page, > which again unfortunately seems down at the moment, and moreover it's in > Japanese, of which I don't understand a word: > > http://yasuoka.net/~yasuoka/hack-2012.html > > At first I thought the patch was working perfectly in an amd64 otherwise > generic MP kernel, but the mouse has a tendency to "slow down" and > become unresponsive over time, and then I have to power-cycle the mouse > itself in order to get it to work again. > > I'm inclined to think it's just a piece of junk, but is there any hope > to support this mouse, or should I simply avoid all Microsoft mice?
The patch is for myself. It fixes the problem of my laptop. I already sent the patch to yuo@. I heard from him the mouse doesn't work because openbsd cannot read the usb hid descriptors properly and it is not easy to fix. He is trying to fix that. --yasuoka
