Re: [techtalk] dead mouse

2001-06-23 Thread James A . Sutherland
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001 23:40:57 -0500, you wrote: >David Merrill wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> My mouse suddenly died on me. Occasionally I can get it to move, but >> then it moves jerkily and coasts to the side of the screen. All 3 >> buttons still work. I've tried two other meeces which both do the

[techtalk] weird happenings with SUSE7.1 upgrade

2001-06-23 Thread WolfRyder
Hey all, For a little background, I have one box with 2 hard drives. One drive is my NT box and the other is my SuSE box. Last Sunday I upgraded my SuSE 7 to 7.1 and all the sudden, the 2nd partition of my NT drive is hidden! At first I thought I had lost everything and would have to reinstall,

Re: [techtalk] dead mouse

2001-06-23 Thread Julie
David Merrill wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 10:52:59AM +0100, James A. Sutherland wrote: > > I'd agree the problem is the PC side of things, but I doubt it's > > hardware. More likely to be a driver problem: you get very similar > > results if you have the wrong mouse type configured, since

Re: [techtalk] dead mouse

2001-06-23 Thread James A . Sutherland
On Sat, 23 Jun 2001 12:23:44 -0500, Julie wrote: >David Merrill wrote: >> On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 10:52:59AM +0100, James A. Sutherland wrote: >> > I'd agree the problem is the PC side of things, but I doubt it's >> > hardware. More likely to be a driver problem: you get very similar >> > results

Re: [techtalk] dead mouse

2001-06-23 Thread Daniel Manrique
> So how does one read raw data directly from the mouse? > > Curious minds, and all that. cat /dev/mouse worked for me. Of course it also horked my mouse, so be sure you're not doing anything terribly mouse-dependant before trying this. - Roadmaster * Save a tree- use

Re: [techtalk] dead mouse

2001-06-23 Thread Daniel Manrique
> > No idea about USB mice, though - or how you get the input from mouse > wheels. Anyone? they're on /dev/input/mice. Reading raw input works just as usual using cat. Judging from the way you configure them in X, the wheel works just like an extra pair of buttons; rolling the wheel up counts a

Re: [techtalk] dead mouse

2001-06-23 Thread Conor Daly
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 10:53:21AM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, James A. Sutherland thought: > On Fri, 22 Jun 2001 23:40:57 -0500, you wrote: > > >David Merrill wrote: > >> > >> Hi all, > >> > >> My mouse suddenly died on me. Occasionally I can get it to move, but > >> then it moves

Re: [techtalk] dead mouse

2001-06-23 Thread ktb
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 03:48:32PM +0100, Conor Daly wrote: > On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 10:53:21AM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, > James A. Sutherland thought: > > On Fri, 22 Jun 2001 23:40:57 -0500, you wrote: > > > > >David Merrill wrote: > > >> > > >> Hi all, > > >> > > >> My mouse s

Re: [techtalk] email web interface

2001-06-23 Thread ktb
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 04:40:29PM -0400, David Merrill wrote: > Can anyone recommend a good web interface for my mail system? I have > imap enabled already, so as system using that would be fine. > The sysadmins at my new job are pretty paranoid about security, and > almost all the ports are clos

Re: [techtalk] dead mouse

2001-06-23 Thread Julie
Daniel Manrique wrote: > > > > > No idea about USB mice, though - or how you get the input from mouse > > wheels. Anyone? > > they're on /dev/input/mice. Reading raw input works just as usual using > cat. > > Judging from the way you configure them in X, the wheel works just like an > extra pai