[techtalk] dead mouse

[Julie]

David Merrill wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 10:52:59AM +0100, James A. Sutherland wrote:
> > I'd agree the problem is the PC side of things, but I doubt it's
> > hardware. More likely to be a driver problem: you get very similar
> > results if you have the wrong mouse type configured, since the driver
> > then interprets the coordinates the mouse sends wrongly...
> 
> Well, I got it working, but I still don't know what went wrong. I
> `fixed' it by running mouseconfig (it's a RH system) and telling it I
> had a serial mouse, then running mouseconfig again and telling it to
> use a Generic 3-button PS/2. So something in my config must have
> gotten clobbered, although I have no idea what, or how. I haven't
> installed anything recently or munged any config files.

Oh, that's interesting.

So how does one read raw data directly from the mouse?

Curious minds, and all that.

-- Julie.