Hairy Cats and mice and FreeBSD

Christian Baer christian.baer at uni-dortmund.de
Sat Jan 20 16:14:52 UTC 2007


On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:29:39 -0500 Robert Huff wrote:

> 	I've used the MicroSoft Intellimouse Explorer and liked it.
> Will obviously work with Windows ... but be careful: sometimes MS
> puts out a new sub-generation that changes the mouse protocol just
> enough to cause problems with the {Xfree86, Xorg} drivers until they
> get updated.

Unfortunately one of the main goals of new versions of MS stuff is to be
incompatible with older stuff so as to throw other software off the
mark.

Regards
Chris


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