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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!olivea!news.bu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!mcrcim.mcgill.edu!homer.cs.mcgill.ca!storm From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Mouse button 2 doesn't work Date: 7 Oct 1993 14:09:28 GMT Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Lines: 38 Message-ID: <2917uo$oab@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> References: <1993Oct4.140601.3834@alw.nih.gov> <MYCROFT.93Oct6061210@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <CEIHtv.Dzt@ucc.su.oz.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: mnementh.cs.mcgill.ca In article <CEIHtv.Dzt@ucc.su.oz.au>, David Dawes <dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU> wrote: >In article <MYCROFT.93Oct6061210@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes: > >Most cheap 3-button clones support either 2-button Microsoft or 3-button >MouseSystems. For those mice with a switch, simply select MouseSystems >mode, and put "MouseSystems" in your Xconfig. Some require you to >hold a button down when powering on your computer and I'm told that >some require holding a button down while starting X. > >>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. > >This is a bus mouse driver? Does it do protocol processing, or just pass >on the raw packets? Just in case anybody else is having this trouble, if you're using a Microsoft Bus mouse, and are having really jumpy mouse movements under XFree86, then change the Xconfig line from Microsoft to BusMouse, and it should work fine. At least it did for me. Now, if MS would only make a three button mouse, or ATI would make their three button mice as cool feeling. Toodlepi! Marc 'em. P.S. Thanks DaveD. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Wandschneider Seattle, WA "Satan has a stranglehold on my toilet and he won't let go!" - frm the Weekly World News