From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Gene Garbutt" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: [9fans] Question about VAIO laptop and mouse support [was ideal Plan9 Laptop] Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 10:38:08 -0800 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 47a5aff4-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 When asked, "What is the ideal Plan9 laptop?", I have seen responses praising the Sony VAIO. My question is what do you use for an external mouse? I can pick up a 505TR but the external mouse port is USB. Does plan9 support USB or do people use a PS/2 mouse with and external adaptor? Thanks in advance, Gene -----Original Message----- From: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu [mailto:9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu]On Behalf Of ozan s yigit Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 3:14 AM To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: ideal plan9 laptop ravage@einstein.ssz.com (Jim Choate) writes about the little keyboard pointing thing: > Yes it is, in fact it's the optimal pointing device available today. too primitive for much else except pointing and grunting so one has to have a mouse anyway. [ask any graphics artist, or a long time illustrator user like me] oz --- www.cs.yorku.ca/~oz | if you couldn't find any weirdness, maybe york u. computer science | we'll just have to make some! -- hobbes