USB mice

Frank Staals frankstaals at gmx.net
Sat Dec 24 01:48:16 PST 2005


Teilhard Knight wrote:

> It seems to me that the way FreeBSD is catching up with new hardware 
> leaves you unsatisfied. One has to choose, upon boot, the option to 
> use an USB keyboard by hand, and I have found no way to make a USB 
> mouse to work. The OS broadly supports serial mice and hardly PS/2 
> mice, both almost out of the market nowadays. Are USB mice supported 
> by FreeBSD?
>
> Teilhard.
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Currently all three systems which run FreeBSD have USB mice, two of them 
just plain Logitech optical mouses, the third is a Logitech MX 300, but 
every other mouse should work when you have enabled moused. Try plugin 
in the mouse when FreeBSD is up and running, it should detect it 
automatically

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-Frank Staals




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