[techtalk] Problems with mouse and X
ktb
x.y.f at home.com
Sat Mar 24 12:54:13 EST 2001
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 09:20:14AM -0800, jennyw wrote:
> I'm using an Microsoft's optical mouse (Intellieye), and am having trouble
> getting it to work well with X. In particular, I can't get the mouse to
> emulate the middle button (I tried using Emulate3Buttons). I'm using Debian
> 2.2 which comes with XFree86 3.3.6.11. Although I think this is an X issue,
> I'm also running Ximian Gnome and Enlightenment, in case that makes a
> difference.
>
> I read in the Enlightenment dox that changing the protocol to
> "MouseManPlusPS/2" and adding ZAxisMapping and Buttons 5 would help for a
> wheel mouse (and not using Emulate3Buttons). Unfotunately, changing the
> protocol caused the pointer to jump around weirdly, so I changed the
> protocol back to "microsoft". It works okay again, but I can't seem to get
> either the additional buttons (including the wheel) to work. Any
> suggestions?
>
Before going any farther with configuring this mouse to run in X, turn
off gpm (console mouse driver). For some reason 2.2 has a hard time
with gpm running and a working X mouse. Some people get it to work but
it would be wise to start without gpm initially. Maybe it is already
turned off but I thought I'd give you a heads up, if you didn't know.
kent
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From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted
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