[GRLUG] Hey look! A linux topic!

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 04:44:06PM -0500, Bob Kline wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 4:35 PM, John-Thomas Richards <jtr at jrichards.org>wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 04:20:01PM -0500, Bob Kline wrote:
> >
> > Are you trying to use the mouse in X or on a command line?  I've never
> > had a problem running a mouse in X, although when 2.6.x first came out,
> > there was a problem with the mouse moving twice as fast, but that was
> > just an XFree86 config change (that was before xorg).
>
> X.  I just let the system using
> the 2.6 kernel install, and try to
> use the mouse.  The cursor does
> not move.  Say Knoppix version V5.1.
> 
> V3.6 works fine.  Same problem with
> other distributions using the 2.6 kernel.

Wacky.  Clearly 2.6.x works with mice.  What type of hardware do you
have?
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