Re: Diagnosing dead mice.

From: Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Date: Fri Nov 02 2001 - 14:51:25 EST


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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