Re: dexter and USB mouse
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 09:21:03PM -0800, Kimball Thurston wrote:
> I upgraded to 4.0.1 packages in woody this morning and have had
> quite a few problems, but the one I thought I'd ask about is with my
> USB mouse (an Intellimouse Explorer). If I choose USB mouse, when I
> start X, it gives an unknown protocol error - I had this same problem
> with my own compile of XF86 4.0, and could never figure it out... If I
> use "ImPS/2", things work just fine...
AIUI, USBmouse is effectively useless under Linux. The new input layer
allows USB mice to appear as standard PS/2 ones to userspace apps.
Incidentally, if ImPS/2 doesn't give you access to all the buttons on the
mouse then try netmouseps/2 instead.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@cam.ac.uk
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