On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 21:25, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote:
> >>>>> "W" == Wouter Lagerweij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> W> On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 16:25, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote:
> >> Are there such things as /real/ 3-button Linux mice?
>
> W> I not sure what you mean. As far as my experience goes, _all_
> W> three button mice work fine with X/linux.
>
> Interesting; I have tried 3button mice from PC Concepts, RadioShack,
> those bundled with IBM and Compaqs, and others and have always been
> left with one dud button. I have a similar problem with other
> hardware, everything from sound cards (I have the /only/ model of
> Turtle Beach that doesn't work) to digital cameras; maybe I just have
> a 6th Sense when it comes to selecting incompatible hardware.
It happens. I knew a guy who managed to have almost every single piece
of hardware he bought be defective. Once he brought it back to the store
and got a new one, things would be fine! (And no, most stores don't
react well if you ask them to give you another one _right away_:-)
But seriously. I've used serial (logitech pilot mouse), ps/2 (logitech
trackman marble / +, 'some clone' trackball, obscure free mouse that
came with a machine) and usb (another logitech). None of them gave me
any trouble. My current "InputDevice" section (Mandrake 9.0 install,
with the aforementioned trackman marble+) reads as follows:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
A non-wheel mouse would have the protocol set to "PS/2" (and probable
could do without the ZAxisMapping line), but apart from that this
setting should work with most any modern PS/2 mouse.
hth,
Wouter
