SUSE 9.0 mumblings

[Matthew Carpenter]

If you go straight to SAX2 (ctrl-f2 -> kdesu sax2) you'll find the ability to add in as many pointing devices as you wish.  I had this hell with laptops since I wanted to use a RAT instead of the gay touchpad that came with the laptop.  To get my USB rat to work I ended up losing the pad... bad way to reboot.  Removing the default "auto" pointing device and adding in both a ps/2 mouse (/dev/psaux) and usb mouse (/dev/input/mice) allows me to use both, whichever way I choose.  In earlier versions of SuSE SAX and YAST had distinctly different mouse config tools, but I believe 8.2 started consolidating them.  Either way, there are hacks you can make to XF86Config but I'm happier having Sax2 do them for me.



On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 08:27:30 +0100
Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se> wrote:
> This is really annoying with mice. Change the mouse and you are in YaST
> hell. The menus are, I have concluded, only intended to be used with a
> mouse, which is a catch 22. I do know the keyboard shortcuts, but they are
> not all properly set up - at least in the mouse selection menu. Tabs move to
> the least likely places and selecting an item is iffy. I dread the 'new
> hardware' found menu when it involves a mouse.
> 
> Still, SUSE is over all pretty good. I will continue to use it in production
> systems. If distributions were perfect, we would have to disband the list!
> 
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