You guys will hate me for this Q

[buzza24]

I am wondering if my Microsoft Optical Wireless mouse will work under Red Hat Linux 9.

WBS.

[Pissed_Macman]

I HATE YOU YOU BASTARD!!!!!!!

Yeah it should work fine since M$ mice work for Macs with no problem. But what do I know?

[Fett101]

It's got a PS/2 connection, right? No reason it shouldn't.

[jasonlane]

Ya, M$ is the only crap you need to install a driver fer a stinking mouse.

[solo]

the mouse will work perfectly. Guaranteed. PS/2 mice all work. USB mice all work. If thge mouse has a scroll wheel, make sure to select the "Wheel mouse" version of the USB or PS2 mouse (whichever port the mouse uses.) It will automatically select the non-wheel version of your mouse, so the wheel version will be just above or below it. No worries. In any case, your mouse will work, and you can change the wheel settings at any time.

edit: meh bad

[ September 25, 2003: Message edited by: Fury: Freedom Fighter ]

[worker201]

Here's an even better twist:
I have a laptop running SuSe, that has it's own little trackpad.  The trackpad works fine with Linux, but I hate the trackpad, so I want to plug in a mouse - an MS Optical.

Now, under win98, if you plugged in a non-optical non-MS mouse after starting windows, the mouse and the trackpad would work, which was great.  neither would work after i got the optical mouse.

So now, under Linux, is it possible to have both pointer devices working?  Will the mouse be hot-pluggable and unpluggable?  Will the trackpad still function with the mouse plugged in?

Not too important in the long run, but it would be kinda nice.

[Windows_SuX_@$$]

It Should work, I have a USB-PS/2 M$ Optical Mouse in my PC Running Linux, Works on both!

[mushrooomprince]

If hes on a mac im pretty sure his mac doesn't have a PS/2 connection.