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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.kei.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Mouse button 2 doesn't work Date: 06 Oct 1993 10:12:10 GMT Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Lines: 23 Message-ID: <MYCROFT.93Oct6061210@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <1993Oct4.140601.3834@alw.nih.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu In-reply-to: crtb@helix.nih.gov's message of Mon, 4 Oct 1993 14:06:01 GMT In article <1993Oct4.140601.3834@alw.nih.gov> crtb@helix.nih.gov (Chuck Bacon) writes: The mouse is a no-name, CompuDyne mouse with a slide switch on the bottom which says (Microsoft <-> Mouse systems), and I have switched it to Microsoft. I also changed Logitech to Microsoft in Xconfig. Can I get a real 3-button mouse out of this? Or is perhaps the Microsoft mouse inherently a 2-button thing, and my mouse disables the middle button? Um, `yes'. The Microsoft Mouse normally has only two buttons, and as I recall XFree86 only deals with two. It's not clear to me whether or not the hardware protocol actually deals with all three buttons on a Microsoft mouse, but the driver seems to think it does. (Anyone with more information on this is welcome to send me email or post...) If you're using the NetBSD mouse drivers (and maybe the 386BSD ones by Erik Forsberg on which the NetBSD ones are based), you might try telling XFree86 that it's a Logitech mouse. Both drivers use the same protocol, and my Logitech three-button mouse works dandy.