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From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: 3 button mice and FreeBSD
Date: 29 Apr 1994 04:59:37 -0400
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
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In article <michaelv.767571719@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu>,
Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@iastate.edu> wrote:
>In <767565393snz@casa.demon.co.uk> matthew@casa.demon.co.uk (Matthew de Woeps) writes:
>
>>Hello,
>>   Is there a 3 button mouse that can be used on FreeBSD?
>
>I use a Logitech busmouse (it's 3-button) with NetBSD-current and
>XFree86-2.1 with absolutely no problems.

For those among us who can spare a serial port, the *very cheapest* mouse made
by Imsi, the "Pet Mouse", is a switchable Microsoft/Mouse systems compatible
3-button serial mose.  In Mouse Systems mode, it works well enough with
XFree86 that I haven't bothered to try my hand at fixing the PS/2 mouse
driver, which was when last I approached the matter Not A Really Big Deal.
(In fact, several eons ago I _did_ hack up the PS/2 mouse driver to work with
-current, but -current has changed enough that it's not worth my trouble to
have back at it, I think.)

The main reason I see no need to use my Dell's built-in PS/2 mouse port is
that PS/2 mice are only two-button.  Way back when X was still X10, not X11, I
developed enough hatred for the both-buttons-hack on a HP300 that I never care
to try it again...
-- 
Thor Lancelot Simon	                                           tls@panix.COM
   But as he knew no bad language, he had called him all the names of common
  objects that he could think of, and had screamed: "You lamp!  You towel!  You
  plate!" and so on.              --Sigmund Freud