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From: nate@see.my.signature (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problems with moused 2.2 BETA
Date: 3 Feb 1997 17:35:37 GMT
Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations
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In article <87enexyl87.fsf@phobos.walker.org>,
Keith Walker  <kew@phobos.walker.org> wrote:
>stanb@netcom.com (Stan Brown) writes:
>> 	I have a ps/2 mouse which works fine while runing X. However, I have
>> 	been unableto get moused to work.

Known problem.
>
>The ps/2 device uses a non-blocking interface and the moused program
>isn't equipped to handle this (unlike X).

It has been 'fixed' to handle things better in 2.2Gamma.


Nate
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