Hi all,

I recently installed openSUSE 11.1 on my multiboot system. I have four OS and every one is booted from a boot partition, with 10.3, had no problems to boot. The following are the lines under my menu.lst for booting openSUSE: [snip - grub entry] I got the following error message from grub "error 2: bad file or directory type" I also tried to change the symlinks to pint to the files but no luck.

The other systems boot normally just openSUSE is giving me that issue. Did you ever install oS11 on that machine? I am a relative newbie to oS so take what I write with a pinch of salt. Having got that out of the way, oS booting 'changed' with oS 11. You can no longer use 'olde' grub to boot it. I chain load to the oS 11 grub and boot from there. Unfortunately, my home machine is in the 'garage' for servicing, so I can't post my grub. I do think that if you install the oS11 grub, you should be able to boot the other systems with

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Trying to get the trackball buttons set correctly (four bottons + scroll
ring), .. 11.1 detects an "ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse". (Tested all
the other drivers in 11.0 with no difference.) Motion is OK, and THE
SCROLL RING WORKS, but the buttons are scrambled.

> Tried setting ButtonOrder in Xorg.conf, but none of the selectable PS/2
drivers recognized them in 11.0.

> Tried using xev to remap the buttons, but the indices are not consistant
- for example, the top right bottom (h/w 3 = right click) comes up as
**8**, and no driver will accept 8 buttons.

Finally did a reinstall with 11.1, but find no differences. f anyone has a
working config or any pointers it would be GREATLY appeciated.

	TIA,

	Lee

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* Dave Howorth (dhoworth@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk) [20090921 12:35]:

I've decided to try a trackball instead of my 3-button-scrollwheel mouse and a quick bit of searching came up with the Kensington Expert Mouse as a likely candidate http://us.kensington.com/html/2200.html. [...] Does anybody have any other advice on pros & cons of trackballs?

I'd recommend the Logitech Cordless Optical Trackman http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/mice_pointers/trackballs/devices/4751&cl=gb,en I use it both at work and at home and am rather pleased with it. It works out of the box both under openSUSE and under windows. The only con I know of is that for a first person shooter you'll very probably want a mouse in addition to the trackball but that isn't a problem either. Philipp -- Philipp Thomas, Software engineer, Architecture Team, SUSE, Germany Anything whose specification is too complicated to explain easily probably needs to be redesigned. -- David Abrahams on boost -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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I'd recommend the Logitech Cordless Optical Trackman http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/mice_pointers/trackballs/devices/4751&cl=gb,en

Thanks Philipp. It looks good except for one thing - I'm left-handed and it's a handed device. I don't see any mention of a left-handed version.

I'm not a lefty :-) but I used to have this trackball... http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/mice_pointers/trackballs/devices/4786&cl=gb,en Worked fine with Linux in general, and was conveniently ambidextrous. I've since switch back to a regular mouse for reasons I can't remember anymore. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

* Dave Howorth (dhoworth@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk) [20090921 16:21]:

Thanks Philipp. It looks good except for one thing - I'm left-handed and it's a handed device. I don't see any mention of a left-handed version.

Most logitech devices are handed and had I known that you're left-handed I wouldn't have recommended it. But searching for trackballs I also found http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/mice_pointers/trackballs/devices/4786&cl=GB,EN though I have no personal experience with it. Cheers Philipp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Monday 21 Sep 2009 16:03:51 Philipp Thomas wrote:

* Dave Howorth (dhoworth@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk) [20090921 16:21]:

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Thanks Philipp. It looks good except for one thing - I'm left-handed and it's a handed device. I don't see any mention of a left-handed version.

Most logitech devices are handed and had I known that you're left-handed I wouldn't have recommended it. But searching for trackballs I also found http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/mice_pointers/trackballs/devices/4786&cl= GB,EN though I have no personal experience with it.

Cheers Philipp Hi .

I use one of the affore mentioned Marble Mouse and have done for the last three years if memory serves me excellent device comfortable to use and dead reliable used on 10.0. , 10.3 11.0 11.1 and now 11.2 But i have to say that in 11.2 i have been unable to get C&P to function correctly between say a browser window (latest Firefox 3.5.x) and email or an xterm . Pete .

On 2009/09/21 17:28 (GMT+0200) Per Jessen composed:

Philipp Thomas wrote:

http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/mice_pointers/trackballs/devices/4751&cl=gb,en

This is ambidextrous, but like all current trackballs I've seen, has no apparent wheel function.

10 years ago I started using Logitech Marble Trackman FX (or some such name), that was perfect, but unfortunately they stopped making those.

I have a Marble FX. It's only for right-handed. It's the best pointing device I have, in spite of lack of a wheel function. Logitech dropped the ball by not providing an equivalent replacement when it was discontinued over 10 years ago. Last I checked eBay, they were bringing around $100USD. -- "The Scriptures tell us righteousness exalteth a Nation." 2nd U.S. President, John Adams Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On 2009/09/21 17:14 (GMT+0100) Dave Howorth composed:

Felix Miata wrote:

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On 2009/09/21 17:28 (GMT+0200) Per Jessen composed:

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Philipp Thomas wrote:

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http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/mice_pointers/trackballs/devices/4751&cl=gb,en

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This is ambidextrous, but like all current trackballs I've seen, has no apparent wheel function.

Eh? It's clearly handed and the scroll wheel can be seen to the left of the ball.

Probably as a result of forgetting that Logitech product pages lock up my web browser for minutes at a time, I managed to miss that there were two logitech URLs in the thread. My comment above referred not to the Cordless Optical Trackman, but to the Trackman Marble: http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/mice_pointers/trackballs/devices/4786&cl=GB,EN -- "The Scriptures tell us righteousness exalteth a Nation." 2nd U.S. President, John Adams Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Felix Miata wrote:

On 2009/09/21 17:28 (GMT+0200) Per Jessen composed:

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Philipp Thomas wrote:

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http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/mice_pointers/trackballs/devices/4751&cl=gb,en

This is ambidextrous, but like all current trackballs I've seen, has no apparent wheel function.

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10 years ago I started using Logitech Marble Trackman FX (or some such name), that was perfect, but unfortunately they stopped making those.

I have a Marble FX. It's only for right-handed. It's the best pointing device I have, in spite of lack of a wheel function. Logitech dropped the ball by not providing an equivalent replacement when it was discontinued over 10 years ago. Last I checked eBay, they were bringing around $100USD.

I've been through three of those, the last one being second hand from ebay. Wrt wheel function, I thought there was a button to press to make the ball produce a scrolling signal. I never got used to it though. /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (21.1°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org