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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!cronkite.cisco.com!cronkite.cisco.com!shaker From: shaker@lager.cisco.com (Christopher J. Shaker) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Logitech "First Mouse" works with XFree386-1.2 Date: 2 Mar 93 16:58:16 Organization: cisco Systems, Inc. Lines: 23 Distribution: world Message-ID: <SHAKER.93Mar2165816@lager.cisco.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lager.cisco.com I just purchased a Logitech "First Mouse" serial mouse for $39.95 at Fry's Electronics in Palo Alto, and it works on 386BSD with XFree386-1.2 just fine. This mouse emulates the Microsoft mouse, *EXCEPT* that it has three buttons. All three buttons work. In your Xconfigure script, just configure the mouse as a Microsoft mouse *WITHOUT* the third button software emulation option. I'm using CGD's serial drivers, I've got the mouse attached to COM2 (tty01) on my motherboard. Before this, I was using a real Microsoft mouse, with the third button software emulation enabled, and the left and right buttons didn't work unless I moved the mouse while the button was pushed. This three button mouse is a real nice change. I've also found the the three character escape sequence to exit the X11 server hangs my machine, completely. It even hangs my shell that was logged in on over a serial line before X was running. So, I don't shut down X that way anymore. Chris Shaker shaker@cisco.com