A couple days ago I accidentally(and I did the first step of it on accident, truthfully. ) switched the Operating System on my dad’s laptop from Windows XP Home*barf*, to Ubuntu. In that process I later decided to try out the encrypted drive option on the alternative install CD. With little hesitation after I decided on moving my ~/ stuff over from my Gentoo system running on a laptop hard drive to the new Ubuntu system I easily setup for my dad. I was running a drive over usb which is only practical for so long, it really makes the drive feel slower to me. The only major configuration issue I had with the move was that not all my Microsoft Intelimouse buttons were working the way I like them to. With a quick edit, by adding a new Input Device section to my xorg.conf, I was content.
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "USBMouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 8 9"
Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 6 7 10 11"
EndSection
I wonder why this isn’t standard info for the Microsoft Intelimouse Optical USB/PS2 when it’s found plugged into my system.
I also gave him the Windows XP Home in a innotek virtualbox so he can run a certain proprietary piece of software which he needs.
