[PLUG] Laptop Recommendations

[Kyle Accardi]

Wil Cooley wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 21:25, Kyle Accardi wrote:
> 
> 
>>The other, a IBM (excellent Linux record) ThinkPad 600e.  Mostly okay, no 
>>wheel action with an external mouse.  Hopefully, IBM has changed the chip 
>>that breaks an external mouse.  Good keyboard feel (hate the layout though) 
>>and overall build quality.  Power management is not perfect but lots better 
>>than the oem'ed Toshiba.
> 
> 
> I'm using an external mouse with a T20 and RH9 and the wheel works
> great.  Could be your X configuration or mouse driver.

I hoped as much, but I've enabled wheel mice on many machines just fine & 
today was bored enough to google and it looks like a known issue for this 
particular model.  Kernel patches were in the works two years ago, but 
that's the latest info in the first 60 hits or so.

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Kyle Accardi