Re: [9fans] evoluent mouse review

["andrey mirtchovski" <mirtchovski@gmail.com>]

can you cat /dev/mouse and see if button 4/5 events are generated by
the mouse? it may be that they give you something else than the usual
down/up event that everybody is used to (large value deltas, for
example). they may also be generating button 6 and up events instead,
in which case you'll have to tweak the kernel driver and put a fix
yourself.

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Dave Eckhardt <davide+p9@cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
> I bought one of these ("Evoluent VerticalMouse 3 Rev 2", aka VM3R2).
>
> It doesn't work with my KVM (IOGear GCS1734, neither top of the line
> nor junk), not with Linux or Plan 9:  horizontal tracking is fine, but
> vertical tracking goes only up.  It works ok plugged directly into a
> Linux box.
>
> After some mail back and forth with Evoluent, the bottom line is they
> don't care.  They began with a defensible position (not all mice work
> with all KVM switches), but, when asked to name *one* switch the VM3R2
> works with, they quit answering mail.
>
> Note that their web site warns against KVM switches when using the
> Windows driver (as if!), but does not make a general warning.
>
> It's an interesting device, but when using some (maybe all?) KVM
> switches you're better off with an $8 Logitech throwaway.  Too bad.
>
> Dave Eckhardt
>
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