On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 09:06:53PM -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
Now if I plug this adapter into a Centos 4.8 machine both the keyboard and mouse are detected... but mouse clicks aren't. I can move the mouse, the scroll wheel works, but buttons 1/2/3 aren't detected. Neither in X nor in console gpm.
Wondering: it might work with CentOS 5.5... Centos 4.8 is getting long in the tooth, partitularly for bleeding edge hardware...
It probably will; it works fine with the X installer from a 5.4 DVD (and it fails to work with the 4.8 installer - so the installer matches the final build in the 4.8 case).
However the existing machine I want to use the keyboard on is already configured and running 4.8 (it's a work machine, initially installed as 4.1 or maybe even just 4) and I'm not willing to spend the time needed to rebuild it as a 5.5 machine and then reinstall and add 5+ years of customisation... maybe if I had more than 5 minutes of free time in my working day, but I can't afford the downtime the rebuild would require (I'm lucky if I can even do a yum update when the next version comes out!)