Re: TP and Freebsd

[Don Whiteside <dwhite@shadow.net>]

On Wed, 13 Sep 1995, Keith Moore wrote:

> > Hi. A question for you freebsd users out there. I've installed freebsd on my
> > thinkpad 360C. [...]
> > The problem is that my trackpoint mouse is never recognized. 
> 
> I have yet to find a*BSD mouse driver that recognizes the trackpoint.
> The easiest fix is to hack the mouse driver to always assume that the
> trackpoint is there, instead of trying to probe it.

There has been discussion of this on the FreeBSD mailing list in the not 
so distant past. Send a missive off to questions@freebsd.org, there are a 
few people there with FreeBSD on 'Pad experience, and I'm sure a few 
mentioned getting the trackpoint to work.

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