I don't remember where to look to paste it here, but I remember
seeing it start up when the machine boots. Which was like 15
days ago. But I'm pretty sure it is up and running. Do you
recall where that is? So I can look there and make sure it
is running.
tdh
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From: "Kelly, Christopher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Tim Holmes'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: [newbie] USB Trackball Mouse
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 13:47:47 -0500
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Is the USB deamon in your start-up?
-----Original Message-----
Tim Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001220 13:56]:
> I just got the new Kensington Expert Pro Mouse. It was supposed
> to come out in October, but hey, we won't gripe about that now.
>
> I got the mouse yesterday, which was perfect because I was building
> another machine. I got all the parts, minus a sound card, for R2D2.
> (Have STAR WARS theme at home. JEDI, YODA,PROBE_DROID, and working
> on R2D2, and C3PO.) I plugged the USB Expert Pro into R2D2, dropped
> the Linux Mandrake 7.2 disc, and started the install.
>
> During the install, the Mouse worked beautiful. I was excited like
> "HECK YEAH!! This puppy's going to work!" I boot, and the X resolution
> is shot, but that's my fault, I can fix that, but the Mouse does NOT
> work.
>
> The Expert Pro has a mouse wheel, which I've not been able to get to
> work with any mouse to dates, despite the .imwheelrc file. It has two
> Left Mouse buttons, two Right Mouse buttons, and a HOME button for web
> pages, and then 4 or 5 quick easy start buttons to open up apps. Well
> I figured if I could get a Left and a Right Mouse button working, I would
> work on the mouse wheel, the HOME Button, and the 4 or 5 quick start
> buttons. But the sucka won't work.
>
> SO... my question is this. Who has used a USB Mouse? Whether it's a
> basic ole run of the mill mouse? Or the a track ball, or what. What
> did you have to do? I mean it asked if I has a USB mouse, I said yes,
> I got excited, then I cried! (A bit exaggerative, but you get the point!)
>
> Why did the USB Mouse work in the install, but NOT afterwards? I have
> yet to try the mouse with the USB -=> PS/2 adapter that came with it.
> I just wanted to try it with USB first.
>
> Now this machine is far from being finished. I mean poor R2D2 still
> has it's sides off and is getting a breeze across his innards. So
> reinstalling will happen and I may actually make it SuSe or something
> else. But I'd like some feed back on the Mouse issue.
>
> Thanx for any help!
> tdh
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