Re: [SLUG] Cordless Keyboards/trackballs and Linux

From: sean@hogston.com
Date: Tue May 24 2005 - 08:46:30 EDT


Quoting Chuck Hast <wchast@gmail.com>:

> Folks,
> I have a nephew out in Oklahoma who is really getting into Linux, both he
> and his wife. He asked me this question, and I have never used one of these
> things so not sure how to answer it, thought i would toss it out here to see
> what you all have to say
>
> > I've been half-heartedly looking at cordless keyboards and
> > tracballs. Most of them say they have drivers for M$ and Mac OS. I
> > haven't seen any that specifically say that they will work with any
> > Linux distro.
>
> There are some that have been on the market long enough that I assume
> that they have drivers for them under Linux, but can not say for sure since
> I have never tried to use one of these things.
>
> Any recommendations out there, are there some that work?
>
> --
I have a logitech cordless mouse that I use with my laptop. It is the "Cordless
Optical Mouse for Notebooks" Model # M-RAA93. It worked out of the box with no
config changes on Debian. I have also tried the Microsoft Bluetooth Desktop
combo which is the bluetooth keyboard and mouse. I really liked the feel of the
mouse but never got it to work with linux. Originally I was trying on a 2.4
kernel under Fedora 1 then moved to debian and 2.6.x. I found a guy that had
written a driver for debian but I had no luck even afer several kernel
rebuilds.

My experience has told me if it is standard USB with a transmitter you should be
ok but stay away from the bluetooth ones unless you can find someone that has a
working config.

Always the best thing to do is get the model number of the device you are
interested in and start with a google search. I talked with a guy from the
business dept at my local CompUSA and he lets me use a machine with internet
access to check for support on something before I buy it.

Sean

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