Logitech mouse problems under X windows in 386/ix

[Garry M. Paxinos]

In article <10232 at june.cs.washington.edu> witold at cs.washington.edu (Witold Paluszynski) writes:

  [.. problems about using a Logitech C-9 mouse ..]

   Although there are no problems with the mouse while in X windows
   (and there really is no reason to leave them once you are in :-),
   this starting glitch is irritating.  I called Interactive and
   they deny any knowledge of a software problems with this mouse,
   instead suggesting that it might be defective.  The mouse is
   plugged into COM1 with its own interrupt 4.  Trying two different
   IO boards with two different UARTs does not change the situation.

   Has anyone heard of such a problem and, preferably, a cure?  The
   mouse is new and could possibly be defective, although works fine
   with everything else I tried.  I couldn't borrow this specific
   kind of mouse to swap-test it.

We have had the exact same problems and reported them to Hollis, there
reply initialy was the same [we don't know of any problem...  HA].  After
further pressure saying this was with several C-9 mice and that C-7's 
work fine, they 'investigated further' and said that was a know problem
and the next release of X11 would fix it.  Well,  we  got in release 1.1
last week and the problem remains...

Oh, one other thing we are experiencing with the C-9 is that a VT switch
will bring down X,  the  XError message being the same as failed startup.

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