[GRLUG] Knoppix with mouse problems?

[Bob Kline]

USB is via an add-on card.   USB 2
actually.  Works fine under Knoppix
V3.6, with a 2.4 kernel.

As soon as I get a USB mouse I'll check
this out.

   -- Bob


On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 9:44 AM, John-Thomas Richards <jtr at jrichards.org>wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 03:27:10AM -0500, Bob Kline wrote:
>
>
> It must be a chipset issue.  When I first switched to a 2.6 kernel I
> used a PS/2 mouse.  Then again, it was a dual-Celeron 466MHz box which
> is rather more recent than a 166HMz box.
>
> This raises an interesting question.  How much backward compatibility is
> removed with each iteration of the kernel?
>
> > I can still try to see whether a USB mouse
> > works....
>
> A 166MHz motherboard with USB?  Wow.  I'd be surprised if the USB
> *worked*.  ;-)
>
> [snip]
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