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From: Bill Gunshannon <billg999@cs.uofs.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Mouse advice for Acme
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:57:24 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <62o6s6F24a70vU1@mid.individual.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080228161510.GA19314@sigint.cs.purdue.edu>

In article <14ec7b180802280826j371310f9je0916fa87629919@mail.gmail.com>,
	mirtchovski@gmail.com (andrey mirtchovski) writes:
> the original poster asked about OSX and Plan 9, on which the
> scrollpoint works quite fine: i've been using one for close to 6 years
> now.
>
>>  I have a couple of those, but found I didn't like the scroll knob.
>>  Under Linux (sorry) at least, it was way too sensitive.  I couldn't
>>  press and release it fast enough to scroll, say, 3-4 lines.  Whatever
>
> yes, it's crap under Linux, but what isn't? ;) there is a solution for
> that, but as one would expect, it requires patching the kernel and
> recompiling it.

It does?  I thought the solution was to stop using Linux.

Friends don't let friends drive Linux.

bill

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Bill Gunshannon          |  de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n.  Three wolves
billg999@cs.scranton.edu |  and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
University of Scranton   |


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-28 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-28 11:48 Rodrigo Miranda
2008-02-28 15:22 ` Paul Lalonde
2008-02-28 15:26   ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-02-28 16:15     ` plan9
2008-02-28 16:26       ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-02-28 16:40         ` Axel Belinfante
2008-02-28 16:54         ` plan9
2008-02-28 17:02           ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-02-28 16:57       ` Bill Gunshannon [this message]
2008-02-28 15:27   ` Charles Forsyth
2008-02-28 16:09     ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-28 16:57     ` Paul Lalonde
2008-02-28 17:12 ` Noah Diewald
2008-03-07  9:31 ` [9fans] " TheAbysmal
2008-03-16 17:18   ` [9fans] " Russ Cox
2008-03-16 17:40     ` Axel Belinfante

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