| From: | Alastair Robinson |
| Date: | 13 Jul 2001 at 23:03:59 |
| Subject: | Re: EZMouse or Punchinello Mk2???? |
Hi Everyone,
> A scroll mouse could use a button or something to do the scrolling which
> I'm not sure works with Freewheel. A wheelmouse definately has a wheel
> so go for one of the MS or Logitech mice.
FreeWheel can generate scrolling events when a button is held down, so it
does work with this kind of mouse (3-button mice!) But it's also possible
for scroll mice to have quite bizarre gadgets for scrolling: I've got one
here with a weird little joystick thing on it, and I've seen them with a sort
of laptop trackpad for scrolling!
> BTW at those pc computer fairs you can normally find boxes full of mice
> that were destined for some Wintel box and are being sold off dead
> cheap. Mine has Gateway's logo on it (whoever they are)
True, but you can get bitten that way too - Logitech had an OEM model mouse a
while back - from the outside identical to the regular models, except for a
greyscale logo instead of a colour one - and it didn't support Intellimouse
emulation for scrolling (which nearly all scroll mice do, and which is
required by EZMouse - and at one time by XFree86 too). A number of people
got caught with mice they couldn't use under Linux...
All the best,
-- You know you've been hacking too long when...
...you stop by the grocery store on your way home, and write your check out
in hex.
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