On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 09:21:03PM -0800, Kimball Thurston wrote: > I upgraded to 4.0.1 packages in woody this morning and have had > quite a few problems, but the one I thought I'd ask about is with my > USB mouse (an Intellimouse Explorer). If I choose USB mouse, when I > start X, it gives an unknown protocol error - I had this same problem > with my own compile of XF86 4.0, and could never figure it out... If I > use "ImPS/2", things work just fine...
AIUI, USBmouse is effectively useless under Linux. The new input layer allows USB mice to appear as standard PS/2 ones to userspace apps. Incidentally, if ImPS/2 doesn't give you access to all the buttons on the mouse then try netmouseps/2 instead. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
