Re: scoll mouse problems

2008-02-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 08:46:19PM -0800, David Fox wrote: > On 2/16/08, Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Believe it or not, the best mouse - strictly from a usability > standpoint for me - is a $14 cheapie optical mouse with two buttons > and a scroll wheel in the middle. It's extrem

Re: scoll mouse problems

2008-02-17 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:04:12 -0500 Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Frank, > Wireless works well on my wife's HP with XP... but the mouse > obviously does not like Linux. Strange, that: I use a Logitech cordless optical mouse with Debian Lenny. No problems whatever. >Wit

Re: scoll mouse problems

2008-02-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 12:04:12AM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: >Without dragging this out...my regular mouse is a MS optical which I > paid $25 for about 2 years ago. I use a mousepad but it seems to work > as well on the desktop. AFAICT optical mice work best on patterned and light colour

Re: scoll mouse problems

2008-02-16 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:46:19 -0800 David Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/16/08, Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Forget it. I went back to a regular keyboard and regular mouse. I > > guess Debian and Microsoft don't get along. > > Maybe that's the right thing to do - whil

Re: scoll mouse problems

2008-02-16 Thread David Fox
On 2/16/08, Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Forget it. I went back to a regular keyboard and regular mouse. I > guess Debian and Microsoft don't get along. Maybe that's the right thing to do - while on the subject of mice, strictly from a usability issue, I didn't find that the wir

Re: scoll mouse problems

2008-02-16 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:25:23 -0500 Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just inherited (from my wife) a (shudder) Microsoft wireless > keyboard/mouse combo ( I bought her the newest model for her XP > installation). I am running Sid up to da