"Andrew B. Arthur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi. > > I'm on a PowerMac 4400/200 with an ATI Mach64 VT Internal Video, using > atyfb, linux-pmac-devel from Sat Oct 21 (uname -a: Linux cowsandcorn > 2.4.0-test10 #3 Sat Oct 21 09:39:08 EDT 2000 ppc unknown). At any rate, > with the New Input Layer (and devfs also), I have to use Xpmac rev. 10 > with this, because older Xpmac revs, don't support the imps2 protocol > provided by /dev/usbmouse (or nowdays /dev/input/mice). XFree86 3.3 and > 4.0's fbdev driver is slow, and it appears to have (endianess?) > problems, that leave black bloches on the screen when moving windows, or > doing other activities that involve alot of pixel movement. XFree86 > 4.0's ati driver seems to lock up on me after a few minutes of use. > > Okay back to the problem. My MacAlly ADB 2 Button Mouse works fine with > this setup, as left mouse gets me left click, and right mouse gives me > right click in X (or middle click in console). My Kensington ADB Orbit > Trackball, on the otherhand causes right click to be mapped to middle > click in both console or X. This is fine for me in console (as I mostly > want to middle click in the console for cut and paste). But for X, this > behavior is just annoyning (as lots of X programs use right click). With > previous Xpmac revs, I got around this using xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 3 > 2", but this won't work (it broken) due to changes made by Kevin > Hendricks when porting USB support to Xpmac. > > For now I am just using my MacAlley mouse, but I would like to be able > to use my trackball (and have right button, right click). I've taken a > look at the kernel driver (mac_keyb.c) but I am at a miss where to > change this. Maybe there is something I am overlooking, like in proc > that I can change to make this hppen. > > Thank You for Your Time And Effort. > > Sincerly, > > Andrew B. Arthur > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gpm can also map mouse buttons. Sysntax is -B 132, see man gpm. HTH -- Andre
