Diagnosing dead mice.

Diagnosing dead mice.

[Ian Stirling]

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?

Re: Diagnosing dead mice.

[Benjamin LaHaise]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 07:21:18PM +0000, 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.

Sounds like the mouse may be working.  Double check that your laptop's 
BIOS is a recent version as most of the laptops I poked at when looking 
into the keyboard driver intercept all keystrokes and mouse movements 
in an attempt to provide additional features.

		-ben

Re: Diagnosing dead mice.

[Richard B. Johnson]

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.