Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 2 Nov 2001 14:51:25 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: Diagnosing dead mice. |
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On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Ian Stirling wrote:
> I've recently bought a new PS/2 scrolmouse, for the princely sum of $2. > > It doesn't work when plugged into my laptop, and occasionally > generates "unknown scancode" and random keys when used. > > It's a "Browser Mouse" FCC ID: IOWCM-B700 > > Is there any logging tool I can use to debug PS2 problems?
In the early '80s, IBM published an official report about cleaning mice balls. Dead mice are a different problem, though, because dirty mice balls are not known to be fatal. ;^)
od -xa /dev/mouse should show you the mouse-stuff.
Cheers, Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.1 on an i686 machine (799.53 BogoMips).
I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.
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