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Calum:
thanks! i'll try that when i get home!

well, it'll take me a few days actually as i have really made my hard drive into a huge bitbucket what with partitioners and bootloaders and so on but never mind!

Master of Reality:
I had a problem with my USB mouse in freebsd..... I now use a PS/2 mouse, but i dont use FreeBSD anymore.

Calum:
so the lesson here is that to fix the problem i should use different software and different hardware. hey thanks! that's worth a try! (end sarcasm mode)

5amYan:
Did you resolve this?

I use 4.7 on three machines.  USB mouse works fine on all.  

As far as the shell goes if you want bash you need to install it.  If you installed the ports tree;
cd /usr/ports/shells/bash2 && make all install clean
as root of course. Then you'll need to set it as the default for new users. Try adduser and set it how you want.

I used bash when I first converted to FBSD.
then I started playing with csh (I think it is really a link to tcsh) which is roots default shell.  I love it it autocompletes and if you enter part of a command you can scroll back through the instances of that command in your history... and many more features.  Unless you change it sh is the default for regular users.

Calum:
well i didn't resolve this unfortunately, the laptop i had freebsd installed on has died and it will be a while before i can afford another computer. if i install freebsd on my desktop computer, the mouse will be a ps/2 one, not a usb one, so i'll never know now, will i?

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