I just got the new Kensington Expert Pro Mouse. It was supposed
to come out in October, but hey, we won't gripe about that now.
I got the mouse yesterday, which was perfect because I was building
another machine. I got all the parts, minus a sound card, for R2D2.
(Have STAR WARS theme at home. JEDI, YODA,PROBE_DROID, and working
on R2D2, and C3PO.) I plugged the USB Expert Pro into R2D2, dropped
the Linux Mandrake 7.2 disc, and started the install.
During the install, the Mouse worked beautiful. I was excited like
"HECK YEAH!! This puppy's going to work!" I boot, and the X resolution
is shot, but that's my fault, I can fix that, but the Mouse does NOT
work.
The Expert Pro has a mouse wheel, which I've not been able to get to
work with any mouse to dates, despite the .imwheelrc file. It has two
Left Mouse buttons, two Right Mouse buttons, and a HOME button for web
pages, and then 4 or 5 quick easy start buttons to open up apps. Well
I figured if I could get a Left and a Right Mouse button working, I would
work on the mouse wheel, the HOME Button, and the 4 or 5 quick start
buttons. But the sucka won't work.
SO... my question is this. Who has used a USB Mouse? Whether it's a
basic ole run of the mill mouse? Or the a track ball, or what. What
did you have to do? I mean it asked if I has a USB mouse, I said yes,
I got excited, then I cried! (A bit exaggerative, but you get the point!)
Why did the USB Mouse work in the install, but NOT afterwards? I have
yet to try the mouse with the USB -=> PS/2 adapter that came with it.
I just wanted to try it with USB first.
Now this machine is far from being finished. I mean poor R2D2 still
has it's sides off and is getting a breeze across his innards. So
reinstalling will happen and I may actually make it SuSe or something
else. But I'd like some feed back on the Mouse issue.
Thanx for any help!
tdh
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