In the immortal words of Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> More by accident than by design, I find myself the owner of a Samsung
> PS/2 Cordless Mouse. To make identification easier, it doesn't have a
> model number, so I assume it's the only one they made.
I've come across one of these myself recently, interesting, but
practically useless.
> This mouse has five buttons: the normal three on top, and one on each
> side. I can't find a way to get the side buttons to work, and looking
> on the web hasn't shown anything of interest.
There are several models and manufacturers of this kind of rodent. You
might want to experiment with it in X (man xev is a good place to
start), but a simple solution is to see what it's detected as when the
system boots up.
> I don't suppose anybody knows this mouse, though I'd be interested in
> hearing if somebody has. My real question is: how can I enable the
> side buttons? There's obviously some kind of initialization sequence
> that is performed by the Microsoft drivers included with the mouse,
> but how do I find out what they do? Is there some utility that runs
> under Microsoft and snoops what's going on on the PS/2 port? I know
> of something similar for USB, but so far I've drawn a blank for PS/2.
The buttons are probably already enabled, but you might need to mess
with some X resources to make them do anything useful.
Also, try something like
Option "Buttons" "5"
int the /etc/X11/XF86Config file
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I'd like to but I don't have control over my upstream providers DNS or
mail settings so your mail server rejects anything I send and there's
not a lot I can do about it.
Cheers
Tim
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Tim Aslat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Spyderweb Consulting
http://www.spyderweb.com.au
Phone: +61 0401088479
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