OK. It's gone midnight here, and I may not reply when the sympa confirm
comes through and I can reflect on what I have said below, but your e-mail bit
me.
First - How dare you put words like "everything else doesn't work & Linux suxx
dirty" into my mouth. I did not say that, I have never said that and I probably
never will. It's that kind of crap that gets Linux and Linux users a bad name.
Secondly - I didn't start this line of mails. I have mentioned this before,
and decided to mention it again when I saw others still experiencing this type
of problem. So, I had a bit of a rant. But I admitted such in the mail. Maybe I
should have put a :-) after the rant ?
Thirdly - It is hardly constructive to say that it works on your box. Well,
bully for you. Hoozah ! It works on Ektanoor's box everybody !
Forth - I started using wheel mice a long time ago (yeah you got it -> #:F,
whatever the F that means) so I can say how things stand for 'old' versions. But
since Mandrake 6 I have made loads of cooker upgrades and the Logitech wheel
mouse has never worked for me. And it appears that I am not alone ! I also
understand that "Microsoft (yuks!)" mice have a lot of success in this area,
but not apparently Logitech.
Fifth - I said at the end of the message that this is probably an XFree86.org
problem, and so it probably is. But these are busy people. All I am looking for
is different avenues to try. If you like I will forward the 20 or so mails I
have kept, each with its own set of different things to try. And that is just
since April this year !
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> OS wrote:
> >
> >
> > I am glad to know it is not just me !!! However it strikes me that the wheel
> > mouse is amongst the most rudimentary input devices and on Window$ PC's is
> > taken completely for granted. It is a sad thing that Linux still does not
> > support wheel mice as an input medium. - There rant over !
> Ok. Stop! The fact that your Logitech mouse doesn't work does not mean
> that everything else doesn't work & Linux suxx dirty.
> My Microsoft (yuks!) mouse has been working perfectly from 4.0 tarball
> to a 4.0.1-8mdk. Yes there is a problem with netscape. Netscape does not
> seem to understand some new features of 4.0, so you have to launch
> "imwheel -k" to add wheel support to netscape. Note: the problem is
> netscape and not 4.0. Without imwheel I can scroll nearly everything
> else, from Eterm to mozilla "M17" nightbuilds.
>
> I started using the wheel not long ago (yeah you got it -> #:F ), so I
> can't say how things stand for old versions. But, since July, I already
> made a few cooker upgrades (imwheel incl.) and didn't note problems with
> it (I didn't change a line of imwheelrc btw). The only possible problem
> is that it doesn't launch automatically. Besides you need to do some
> rtfm to install it (man imwheel and add two three lines to
> XF86Config-4).
>
> Ektanoor
