RE: Microsoft mouse in X11
Check the bottom of your Microsoft mouse. If it is a version 2.1 or higher,
you have become the victim of the Microsoft behemoth. For some reason, which
has yet to be adequately explained, the MS Mice above version 2.0 do not
work with the newest versions of XFree. I have dissected many a mouse and
still have no answers. Microsoft is apparently now in the business of making
"Windows Only" hardware. Still it works fine using gpm in text mode.
http://www.xfree86.org/FAQ/index.html#MSMouse21A
Timm Gleason
Hardware Engineer
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Bernays [mailto:pbernays@corplink.com.au]
> Sent: Thursday, March 19, 1998 7:50 PM
> To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org'
> Subject: Microsoft mouse in X11
>
>
> Okay, I'm a complete beginner in Linux and I really need help in
> trying to configure the X-windows system. I can't configure the mouse
> to work at all. I read on XFree's site that I needed to download the
> gpm1-13 package and use the mouseman protocol. Unfortunately, this
> requires libc6. I already have libc5 installed, and libc6 conflicts
> with this package. However, libc5 is required by too many other
> packages. Do I have to upgrade the libc5 package? How do I work
> around this problem?
> I should also add that the libc6 and gpm1-13 packages were from the
> unstable catagory, whereas the libc5 package was a stable one. Could
> this be a problem?
>
> Any help anyone can give would be much appreciated.
> Paul Bernays
>
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