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Re: PS/2 Mouse Port...related question



Turns out that the old Logitech mice used a proprietary protocol.
That is what XFree86 refers to when it says "Logitech mouse".
Gnerally, any mouse that connects to a PS/2 port will use the
PS/2 protocol.

Bryan

On 21-Jan-2000 Nick Jennings wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 05:51:39PM -0600, David J. Kanter wrote:
>> I have a Logitech MouseMan Wheel, yet must use the ps2 driver rather than
>> the Logitech MouseMan driver when running XF86Setup (the Logitech driver
>> makes the mouse jumpy). Why is that? Is my mouse schizophrenic?
>> 
>> Is the key the connector at the back of my desktop, not the label on the
>> bottom of my mouse?
> 
>       I have a logitech wheel mouse, and It works only if I set it to
> either ps2 or imps2
> 
> 
>> On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 07:55:50AM +0930, Terri and Glen Kondos wrote:
>> > I'm having trouble figuring out what device I should use for my PS/2 port
>> > mouse. I have a Microsoft PS/2 mouse and notice on boot up the Linux 
>> > recognizes that there is a PS/2 mouse port. When configuring
>> > /etc/gpm.conf, I 
>> > don't know what device to use for the mouse.
> 
>       Try setting it to IMPS/2
> 
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