[PLUG] silly mouse issue

[Sasha Romanosky]

Bleh, that blows. okay, thanks everyone. 

Since this is my pvr machine and most of the navigation I do is with a
remote, its not critical that I reboot. This also forced me to get xine
working with the remote. 

sasha

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-admin at lists.pdxlinux.org 
> [mailto:plug-admin at lists.pdxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Rich Shepard
> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 2:52 PM
> To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] silly mouse issue
> 
> 
> On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Sasha Romanosky wrote:
> 
> > I'm running mandrake 9.0 and recently I needed to swap the mouse. I 
> > swapped one ps2 mouse (logitech cordless optical) for another (MS 
> > wheel mouse). I was hoping this wouldn't disable the mouse, but it 
> > did.
> 
>   Quite often a reboot is required. If you're into 
> conspiracies, consider that you are trying to use a Microsoft 
> mouse and it may be designed to not work on linux. It's a 
> really good thing you don't have a SCO mouse! (There are a 
> number of SCO rats, but that's for a different thread.)
> 
> Rich
> 
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