Subject: Re: Buying A Mouse
From: Iain Stevenson (iain@iainstevenson.com)
Date: Sat Nov 10 2001 - 04:05:55 MST
Mike,
I tried to find a reliable multi-button ADB mouse without much luck. I
bought a MacAlly mouse that didn't work. It turns out that the support in
the kernel for multi-button mice only covers certain vendors. I bought a
Kensington Orbit trackball with 2 buttons and that's OK. Buying a
Kensington product may be the low risk option.
Then I bought another Mac and tried the USB option (with a MacAlly PCI USB
card) with a Contour 3 button USB mouse. That works fine - except in
sunlight when the light shines through the translucent case and onfuses the
optics! However, the USB mouse isn't recognised at the start of the boot
sequence in MacOS - although it works fine when fully booted into MacOS.
So, I have to keep an old ADB mouse connected to adjust BootX if needed.
Hope this helps.
Iain
--On Friday, November 9, 2001 11:37 pm -0500 Michael Tucker
<mtucker@eecs.harvard.edu> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Is there any way to find out what multi-button mice are usable under
> YDL... Preferably ADB, but I guess I can buy a USB card if those are
> supported ;) Suggestions? I checked out the Supported Devices page, but it
> didn't mention any mice.
>
> Mike
>
>
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