[SLUG] Re: mice

[Charlie Brady <charlieb@nospam.aurema.com>]

[I'm not sure why I'm having such trouble getting myself understood..]

On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Jamie Honan wrote:

> 3 buttons.
> 
> [I wrote the following before realizing that you really wanted
> msoft 3 button protocol rather than mouse systems 3 button]

I don't care what protocol it uses, I just want the middle button to paste
in X :-)

> This is one of those infuriating things. The designer
> has gone to a lot of trouble giving the device the capability
> of three buttons, but as a last step the manufacturer may
> have disabled this capability.
> 
> You can play with raising/lowering DTR signals (search net),
> with holding down a button during power up etc. etc. but this
> is error prone.
> 
> Opening up the beastie may reveal where a switch once was
> on the PCB. You can guess how to 'jumper' the switch for
> mouse systems mode.

It can't be any of those things. Straight out of the box all three buttons
work fine - with gpm. It's when I go into XFree86 that I can't find any
configuration that works.

SInce I've had one report that it works, I'll try gpm's relay mode and
hope that gpm can translate whatever wierdness there is to something that
Xfree86 understands.

Charlie Brady
Aurema Pty Ltd
 PO Box 305, Strawberry Hills, NSW 2012, Australia
Email:charlieb@nospam.aurema.com, Tel: +61 2 9698 2322, Fax: +61 2 9699 9174
  "I think it would be a good idea." Ghandi, on Western Civilisation.

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