David was once rumoured to have said: > On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Denis Crowdy wrote: > > > On my imac running Debian woody, I have this entry in /etc/sysctl.conf: > > > > dev/mac_hid/mouse_button_emulation = 1 > > dev/mac_hid/mouse_button2_keycode = 87 > > dev/mac_hid/mouse_button3_keycode = 88 > > > > This gives me a middle button with F11 and a right button with F12. > > > > Then restart procps with: > > /etc/init.d/procps.sh restart > > Works perfectly.... how on earth would I have known that without > SLUG?
This actually is documented in the kernel documentation tree (IIRC) - but the details are somewhat vauge - the general attitude is if you're using a USB enabled Mac, buy a real 2 or 3 button mouse. (The M$ Optical Wheel mouse works fine with USB Macs + OS X, OS 9 and Linux for example, and they only cost between $40-60). As for the non-USB-enabled powermacs? that can be fixed easily with a ~$60 PCI USB card ;) Almost any OHCI USB card (I bought an elcheapo PC one) can be dropped into any PCI powermac and they'll "just work" - except under OS 9, which requires that you download and install the USB support extensions, then it just works. In the long term, getting a multi-button mouse will be somewhat more comfortable than using keys on your keyboard for a desktop system - unfortunately laptop mac users are stuck with their internal one-button trackpads unless they like lugging a mouse around with their laptops. C. -- --==============================================-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==============================================-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
