FreeBSD 7.0 Suddenly Dead mouse

[dfeustel at mindspring.com]

On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 01:50:04PM -0400, Gary Palmer wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 05:43:03PM +0000, dfeustel at mindspring.com wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 01:18:07PM -0400, Gary Palmer wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 04:09:15PM +0000, dfeustel at mindspring.com wrote:
> > > > My optical mouse has suddenly died for the 2nd time in both kde and X on
> > > > a new computer running 64-bit AMD FreeBSD 7.0. This is the second time
> > > > this mouse has died this way (last time was when I was using the mouse
> > > > on a different AMD 64-bit computer running X/kde onOpenBSD). Cycling
> > > > power and rebooting the computer does not revive the mouse.
> > > > 
> > > > Assuming (dangerous, I know :-) ) that the mouse is not broken, where in
> > > > the X code might the mouse be 'turned off' and how, (if that has been
> > > > done) would I turn it back on?
> > > > 
> > > > Also, is there a way to simulate the mouse commands using the keyboard
> > > > when the mouse becomes catatonic? I hate to have to keep using
> > > > ctl-alt-bksp to abort X.
> > > 
> > > I cannot answer the "turned off" question, but if you have a keyboard
> > > with a numlock key and a numeric keypad, pressing SHIFT-NUMLOCK
> > > will turn the keypad into a low quality mouse.  8 moves the pointer up,
> > > 2 moves it down, etc.  Pressing SHIFT-NUMLOCK again disables the feature.
> > > 
> > > At least on my system, the system speaker beeps when you toggle
> > > the feature.
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > 
> > > Gary
> > 
> > Thanks for this info! It works. Is there also a way to simulate clicking the
> > mouse buttons?
> 
> 5 is left click.  0 is left-click and hold.  * changes the 5 to be middle 
> click.  / changes the 5 back to left click.  - changes the 5 to be right
> click (at least on my setup, YMMV)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Gary

Thanks Very Much! This will be a handy hack for me!