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From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Busmouse driver for FreeBSD (EPSILON)??
Date: 13 Oct 1993 17:30:17 GMT
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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Message-ID: <29hdv9$t14@homer.cs.mcgill.ca>
References: <1993Oct12.224922.3598@lgc.com> <NEWSSERV!STARK!GENE.93Oct13072852@stark.uucp>
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In article <NEWSSERV!STARK!GENE.93Oct13072852@stark.uucp>,
Gene Stark <newsserv!stark!gene@cs.sunysb.edu> wrote:
>>Subject line says it all.. Anyone know of such a beast?? the files.i386 seem to
>>make reference to a mse.c which I suppose is supposed to be the busmouse driver.
>
>You can get such a driver by anonymous ftp to
[..]
>I just patched it the other day to work around the long-standing
>"phantom button press" bug, which as someone on the net just posted last
>week, is due to an XFree bug having to do with overflow when negating
>a signed character value of -128.
It is unclear to me that this is an XFree86 bug. I spent
some time on this last week, and the solution was to declare
the mouse in the Xconfig file as type "BusMouse" instead of
"Microsoft".
Has worked flawlessly for me ever since.
Marc 'em.
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Marc Wandschneider Seattle, WA
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