On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Benjamin A. Okopnik wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 08:10:48PM -0800, Tim Maher wrote:
> > Fellow teachers,
> >
> > Anybody have any experience/opinions on the new "Gyration Ultra Cordless
> > Optical Mouse", the latest gyroscopic mouse from gyration.com? These
> > things free you from your laptop while you're making presentations,
> > so you can run and jump around, without missing a mouse-click, just
> > like Madonna's wireless microphone lets her cavort like a siren in heat
> > while singing! 8-}
> >
> > Also, I wonder if anybody can say whether this device, which connects
> > to the USB port and is reputed not to need special drivers for Windoze
> > or MacOS, actually works on Linux.
>
> <http://www.medium.de/scripts/en/whatsnew_text.cfm?ID=107> says that it
> works fine with just a PS/2 module. That would have been my educated
> guess, since the mouse-to-PC interface is pretty standardized, and it
> wouldn't have made much sense for these guys to screw with a working
> system.
For the last year I've been using USB mice on several desktop boxes under
Red Hat 7.2 and now 8.0 and they work well. I haven't had any troubles
that would make me prefer a mouse-port mouse over a USB mouse. And using
the USB for a mouse that will do USB or mouse port usually means leaving
off the USB to mouse port dongle. One fewer thing to lose/go wrong is
always nice when going out to teach. :)
> I think I'm going to look into this gadget; looks like it'll come in
> very useful. Thanks for the tip!
I've been looking at these sorts of things for ages. If anyone does have
success getting one going under Linux, I think a lot of people would like
to hear about it.
--
</chris>
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fighting against the two most destructive forces in the universe:
entropy and human stupidity. They're not things you can always
overcome with a "methodology" or on a schedule.
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