[PLUG] Ubuntu and Kensington Exper Mouse Model #64215

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Thu Sep 28 02:18:00 UTC 2006


On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Victor Soich wrote:

> I have installed Ubuntu 6.06 on my laptop.  My Kensington Exper Mouse,
> which is a Trackball, connects to my laptop via a serial connection, and
> works in Windows.  When I go into Ubuntu, my Track Ball doesn't work.  Is
> there some "how to" on how to get my Track Ball to work.

   No. A trackball looks like an upside down mouse to the port. Make sure
that you have gpm running ('ps ax | grep gpm'). You can read more about it
in 'man gpm.' In X, you'll be able to set up the trackball when you
configure all devices.

Rich

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