Gerald, Here you go:
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-xfree-faq.html#q-trackpoint That will be 1 second of your 15 minutes of fame, please. :) Harold > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gerald S. Williams > Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 10:06 AM > To: Harold Hunt; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Trackpoint support? > > > Harold Hunt wrote: > > In this case you're going to have to do some investigation to > find out how > > the Trackpoint driver emulates a mouse wheel. > > Done. > > I found out that there is a special configuration file for the > trackpoint driver. It's in /WINNT/System32/tp4table.dat in my > case, although it looks like in the beta driver they've renamed > it to tp4scrol.dat. > > The beta driver's at http://wwwcssrv.almaden.ibm.com/trackpoint > (thanks to Scott Brim for the reference), although I was able > to make my current driver work. > > I simply added the following to the end of the "Pass 0 rules" > in that configuration file and rebooted: > > ; X Windows > *,*,XWin.exe,*,*,cygwin/xfree86,WheelStd,0,9 > > That tells the driver to use Wheel messages as opposed to > whatever it normally does. Since the driver is capable of > scrolling in both directions, it probably does look for the > scrollbars by default. I was guessing a bit about what to > put in this entry, although that one seems to work. > > Unfortunately, this doesn't allow the button to work as a > middle button as well, but -emulate3buttons works for me. > > -Jerry
