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Chris Faulkner <cfaulkner70@×××××.com> posted |
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77e2f44f0908031610p25e2d84et4be580037c33d8eb@××××××××××.com, excerpted |
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below, on Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:10:04 -0500: |
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> Then again it could be something like what I was experiencing. I have a |
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> MS Mouse and it would not work in FreeBSD. I inquired about it on a |
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> mailing list and they said that there wasn't any driver support for that |
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> particular MS mouse. It could be a simple matter of no driver support |
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> in the OS. Try a Logitech keyboard or some other keyboard. |
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FWIW I had an MS mouse/keyboard, wireless, at one point, but while they |
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worked, the wireless reliability was terrible. I have a strong suspicion |
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that the MS drivers had Tx power adjustment, either as a config option, |
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or automatic, and that it was defaulting to the lowest setting on Linux, |
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which didn't have that feature as it was using the generic driver |
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settings. |
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But Logitech has always been extremely solid for me, and this is my |
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second $100 wireless keyboard from them (the first unfortunately got |
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dripped on when my old A/C unit dripped on it, and the membrane keyboard |
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traces dissolved). |
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But he did say somewhere in the thread that it worked on another Linux |
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distribution, so it couldn't be that Linux doesn't have the proper |
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driver. Just the LiveCD didn't. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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