AthlonRob <junkmail@axpr.net> says...

>USB mice work great in Linux... they're very easy to set up and work
>just as well as any PS/2 mouse. I don't know who told you USB mouses
>don't work too well in Linux... but it seems to me they were quite
>wrong. All the external mice I use on my systems are USB mouses.

I make sure that I have a USB and a PS/2 mouse as well as a
USB and a PS/2 keyboard plugged in whenever I install any OS.
Slackware 9.1, Windows 2000 and Windows ME all find all four,
and work fine[1] with any combination. The dual keyboard also
works fine under MS-DOS and FreeDOS, which tells me that the
BIOS is lending a helping hand.




[1] As much as any Microsoft OS can be considered to be "working fine."

--
Guy Macon, Electronics Engineer & Project Manager for hire.
Remember Doc Brown from the _Back to the Future_ movies? Do you
have an "impossible" engineering project that only someone like
Doc Brown can solve? My resume is at http://www.guymacon.com/