On Mon, 1 Apr 2002 11:45:08 -0500 Michael George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quietly intimated:
> I would like to get a trackball for my system... I'm looking at the > Kensington TurboBall Trackball, which has two buttons on either side > of the ball and a scroll wheel in the middle. > > I am wondering if anyone has used a pointer like this. I'm not > concerned about the wheel much, and if I can only use 3 of the 4 > buttons, that's okay, too. > > But I'm mostly wondering if XFree86 will handle about any pointing > device and see 3 buttons on it... If I can do that, I'll be happy. > Anything more than that is gravy. > > Anyone have experience with these? > > -Michael I don't know about the one you mentioned, but take it from me and stay with an optical ball!! I had a kensington that wasn't optical. It lasted for awhile and it ended up needing cleaning too often for my tastes, like every 2-3 days. I changed it out for a logitech optical and have had a _MUCH_ better experience! I have a friend that has a trackball that has something like six buttons on it. It's possible it was 4 with another wheel thingy on it, since I only saw it once. He was able to get 4 of them to work without much trouble. I don't know if he ever got the other 2 (or wheel, or whatever was leftover) to work, or even if he tried to. He did say he'd look into it later, but I know he wasn't in a big hurry about it. -- The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
