On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, you wrote: > My MS Intellimouse gave up on me. Despite a lot cleaning, etc, the buttons > were getting stuck and causing me to either have to click more than once to > get a click or one click would act as a double click. So with trepidation I > bought a MS optical Intellimouse, worried as to whether it would work in > Linux. > > The 2 buttons and the scroll button worked perfectly in Linux with no > changes in my configuration, BUT the scroll button did not work in NT untill > I installed the "special software". I thought that was really funny. :-)) > > Does anyone know if the additional side buttons (forward and back on the > web) also work in linux? I have not yet tried them as I hurried to share > this with the group. > > Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Registered Linux user 183185 I also have an optical mouse and linux usually detects it as a ps2 even tho' it is a usb mouse, anyways, the other two buttons do not work in linux, and the scrolling wheel only works in caldera EDesktop 2.4!
