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Re: We can buy the S50!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phillip Long)
Thu Jul 17 22:04:44 2003
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 22:04:42 -0400
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To: Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
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Bill:
This is good news. Your recommendation makes sense to me. It puts a
bit of a premium on following a precise sequence during the
installation, but that shouldn't be too onerous.
phil
On Thursday, July 17, 2003, at 06:01 PM, Bill Cattey wrote:
> IBM today delivered the exact test system.
> I confirmed that the new installer successfully installs the system.
>
> One snag: I was a teeny bit careless and didn't notice that the
> system ships with a USB scroll-wheel optical mouse instead of the
> basic PS2 3 button mouse.
>
> Popular linux lore is that USB mice "just work".
> Well that's fine if you don't mind waiting an extra half minute for the
> X server to start!
>
> This probably is not a big deal for private systems, but I think it
> would be an issue for quickstations, and probably with clusters. My
> own
> sense was, "What's wrong? Why isn't X starting?".
>
> IBM has agreed to take up the slack and hand us different mice rather
> than starting the custom configuration clock again.
>
> Mitch and I have done additional testing, and our current observation
> is
> that if you install with a PS2 mouse plugged in, the USB mouse works
> fine thereafter. What's probably going on is that the mouse discovery
> logic is inverted.
>
> QUESTION: Do we want to request a DIFFERENT custom build with the ole
> reliable mouse?
>
> RECOMMENDATION: NO. Let's just go with what we have, install PS2 mice
> to start, and continue to pursue a software remedy, expecting USB mice
> to be ok long term.
>
> -wdc
>
>
Phillip D. Long, Ph.D. -- longpd@mit.edu
Senior Strategist for the Academic Computing Enterprise
MIT - N42-005 -- voice:617-452-4038
77 Massachusetts Avenue (street 211 Mass. Ave.) -- fax: 617-253-8665
Cambridge, MA 02139
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Bill:
This is good news. Your recommendation makes sense to me. It puts a
bit of a premium on following a precise sequence during the
installation, but that shouldn't be too onerous.
phil
On Thursday, July 17, 2003, at 06:01 PM, Bill Cattey wrote:
<excerpt>IBM today delivered the exact test system.
I confirmed that the new installer successfully installs the system.
One snag: I was a teeny bit careless and didn't notice that the
system ships with a USB scroll-wheel optical mouse instead of the
basic PS2 3 button mouse.
Popular linux lore is that USB mice "just work".
Well that's fine if you don't mind waiting an extra half minute for the
X server to start!
This probably is not a big deal for private systems, but I think it
would be an issue for quickstations, and probably with clusters. My
own
sense was, "What's wrong? Why isn't X starting?".
IBM has agreed to take up the slack and hand us different mice rather
than starting the custom configuration clock again.
Mitch and I have done additional testing, and our current observation
is
that if you install with a PS2 mouse plugged in, the USB mouse works
fine thereafter. What's probably going on is that the mouse discovery
logic is inverted.
QUESTION: Do we want to request a DIFFERENT custom build with the ole
reliable mouse?
RECOMMENDATION: NO. Let's just go with what we have, install PS2 mice
to start, and continue to pursue a software remedy, expecting USB mice
to be ok long term.
-wdc
</excerpt><fontfamily><param>Helvetica</param>Phillip D. Long,
Ph.D. -- longpd@mit.edu
Senior Strategist for the Academic Computing Enterprise
MIT - N42-005 -- voice:617-452-4038
77 Massachusetts Avenue (street 211 Mass. Ave.) -- fax: 617-253-8665
Cambridge, MA 02139</fontfamily>
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