Re: USB mouse
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 08:04:59AM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 08:30:41PM +0300, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 04:03:19PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wanted to say the following:
[snip -- on detecting if the mouse is live]
> > You should probably do
> >
> > cat < /dev/usbmouse
> >
> > it should print nice garbage stream to the terminal when you move the mouse,
> > and it should stop if you dont move it. Example here (dont we all just love
> > screenshots 8)
[control chars deleted]
> > It will mess up your terminal if you do it for a long time, typing "reset"
> > helps if your characters get garbled.
>
> or echo ^V ^O
Or even use "cat -v" to render the control characters harmless.
Jon Leonard
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