Re: Laptop and Linux

Stephen Gregory <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.user-groups.linux.ottawa.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 01:06:23PM +0000, Croombe F. Pensom wrote:
> I need Windoze for one application only (my book
> cataloging software which is now over 12 years old and has my repository
> of about 5000 books on it so can't be ported to a Tux application)

Have you tried running this app under Wine? If it is 12 years old I
would think that all of the APIs the app needs are in WINE now. 



> There is one
> slight problem, though, Linux doesn't like the Thinkpad's little gizmo
> that replaces the mouse whatever I do 

Is it disabled in the bios? are you sure it isn't broken? I have never
had an issue with the track points on IBM or Dell laptops.

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sg
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