Greetings,
Friday of last week my beloved Acer ergonomic keyboard
went kaput and I had to run out to Frys to get
something to replace it. I'm now using a Logitech MX
wireless dual keyboard and optical mouse with eight
buttons on it. The receiver plugs into the standard PS2
ports.
Of course, not one of the glitzy extra buttons on
either the keyboard or mouse do doodleysquat under
Linux. I even need to press both the main mouse buttons
together to emulate button2 for pasting from the
clipboard. (I endured a similar workaround on the
Acer.)
Surely I'm not the only person on this list with such a
piece of equipment, and I'm sure it must be possible at
least to get the mouse wheel working. Who knows what I
have to change to get it to recognize this gear?
I figure /usr/sbin/kudzu ain't it.
BTW, I'm running Red Hat 8.0. (To my great sorrow.)
When my keyboard bit the dust and I shutdown, I had an
uptime of 219 days that it broke my heart to interrupt.
At least it was hardware, not Linux causing me to
reboot.
I miss my Acer, particularly for having the mouse right
under my thumb. Sigh. But onward ...
--
Lynn David Newton
Phoenix, AZ
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