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From: Mark_Weaver@brown.edu
Subject: Re: Mouse problem...XFree86-1.3 on NetBSD 0.9
In-Reply-To: bhiksha@tifrvax.tifr.res.in's message of Tue, 5 Oct 1993 04:38:51 GMT
Message-ID: <MARK_WEAVER.93Oct5040703@tonto-slip9.cis.brown.edu>
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Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
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Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1993 08:07:03 GMT
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In article <5OCT93.04385139@tifrvax.tifr.res.in> bhiksha@tifrvax.tifr.res.in writes:
> I am running XFree86-1.3 on a 486 running NetBSD 0.9
> When i use a logitech 3-button mouse, (with the default XConfig),
> i get very odd response: the cursor movements are staccatto and dont seem
> to correlate to the mouse motions very much. Also, the machine seems to
> be receiving a lot of button-clicks, even though i dont touch the buttons
> and the screen goes haywire.
> I have used the same mouse with all kinds of applications on dos and it
> worked fine. I tried replacing the mouse with another of the same type
> and that barfed too.
> However, when i put a microsoft mouse on, it works beautifully!
> Unfortunately it is a two button mouse!
Try the following mouse types (in Xconfig immediately before the serial
port device name): Logitech, Mouseman, Microsoft. One of those should
work.
> Also, how can i use a two button mouse to emulate three buttons (say
> have the second button function as the middle button when double clicked,
> or along with the esc key)?
If you put "Emulate3Buttons" in Xconfig on it's own line, then when you
press both buttons simulataneously, it will act like the middle button.
Mark
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