[ale] weird mouse problem

[Jim Philips]

Thanks for the useless rant! For the record, the same mouse *has* been
working in Linux for the last 12 years. It quit working last week, after
some Ubuntu updates.

On Sep 9, 2010 11:10 AM, "Paul Cartwright" <ale at pcartwright.com> wrote:
> On Thu September 9 2010, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> Using windows print drivers for Linux systems doesn't work or even make
>> sense. There's many networkable printers but a few use non-standard ports
>> or protocols. Again, that's not a fault of Linux but of the printer
maker.
>> Wait a month and the Linux world will work around the brokenness of the
>> makers engineering.
>
> so, how many months have you been waiting/working to get that mouse
working?
> for the most part, if you want to buy SOMETHING for your Linux PC, you
really
> need to make SURE that someone has already gotten it to work, or you will
> either spend alot of time working on it, or waiting til the next
> kernel/software update. OK, so linux might be ready for prime time AS LONG
as
> you buy it with linux installed & don't add anything to it, or know
someone
> that has added that piece of hardware to an existing linux box. If you buy
a
> Mac, and buy your software/hardware at a MAC store, it will work, right?
but
> you can't go to Best Buy, Sams Club... and buy a piece of hardware and
KNOW
> that it will work with your linux box. I ran into that with modems, trying
to
> get one to work for my Uncle.. very frustrating, and he gave up. If he had

> just had DSL, it probably would have JUST WORKED. Not everything does.
> So if Linux is ready for prime time, then it is the Windows driver
programmers
> that need to change, good luck!
>
>
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